Example sentences of "realise [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The estimate for the current work is far in excess of any price yet realised for a work by Goya and the highest price achieved at auction is currently the $650,000 ( £391,000 ) paid for a drawing entitled ‘ Those who escape work end up like this ’ sold at Christie 's New York in October 1990 . |
| 2 | But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was . |
| 3 | In other words a capital outlay and revenue allocation will , by necessity , precede the recovery of any sums realised as a result of the reduction in long stay services . |
| 4 | The inescapable subservience of the female is ratified even when she is not manoeuvred as an object of adoration or spite : But the effect of this fifteenth-century carol in providing a reminder that the Incarnation was realised through a woman , is to put a warning shot across the bows of those who exploit the daughters of Eve . |
| 5 | I rang the senior registrar to tell him but realised after a while he was n't saying much . |
| 6 | Naturally there was only one more mention , she realised after a moment . |
| 7 | They have also realised after a number of annual painting expeditions together that there is considerable mileage to be had from monastic ruins as well as both occupied and derelict castles . |
| 8 | Why ca nt they realise for a second that if he had been playing , maybe they would have won all 6 matches and pissed on all of the sides ? |
| 9 | That 's until I clock the boat races at the Basildon count , and realise in a horror flash that the Cons are going to do an over-aller ; perhaps even increase their maj . |
| 10 | In Greek tragedy , in most of Jane Austen 's novels , a leading figure in the drama realises with a sense of shock that the world is other than once imagined , and accepts that it is so . |
| 11 | This was the heart of the bastide , Sabine realised with a gasp of delight . |
| 12 | He swung his legs out of the bed and realised with a shock what day it was . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm fine , ’ she replied automatically — then realised with a shock that she really was . |
| 14 | Or perhaps he was n't being considerate , she suddenly realised with a pang — perhaps he had n't made a move simply because he was n't in the least attracted to her . |
| 15 | Folly realised with a stab of surprise that that was actually true . |
| 16 | Lissa 's mouth shaped her distaste , and she put her cup down and realised with a start that Adam was saying something . |
| 17 | She stopped , embarrassed suddenly , looked down , realised with a start just how close she had been to revealing some parts of her life , her thoughts … |
| 18 | On her way back to the surgery , Sophie glanced at her watch and realised with a start that she had left Joanna on her own for nearly two hours . |
| 19 | He was still a moment , watching her , astonished for the hundredth time by the fragile beauty of her , then began to eat again , realising with a laugh just how hungry he had been . |
| 20 | She went over to the bed , realising with a shock that she still wore her kimono . |
| 21 | She held out her hand , and as he took it , he took off his glasses , so that she looked directly into his dark eyes , realising with a start that they were very beautiful and rather disconcerting . |
| 22 | Because her only defence was to turn him against her , she realised with a pang of sorrow . |
| 23 | He thought her arms were outstretched for him , but realised with a pang of disappointment they were to ward off any obstruction that might be between them . |
| 24 | She had n't actually intended to go in , but the window display caught her eye and , without thinking , she wandered in , to look , certainly not to buy , until she realised with a pang of guilt , as she gazed at the racks of colourful fashions , that everything in her wardrobe must be hopelessly out of date . |
| 25 | She realised with a shock what a mystery her children were to her , and what a mystery she must seem to them . |
| 26 | She realised with a shock that , while waiting for the disaster she believed was inevitable , she had been holding her breath . |
| 27 | So short a time , Charlotte realised with a shock , that he could not possibly have returned home in the meantime , since he was a close neighbour of the Bodens , who lived ten miles from Aurae Phiala . |
| 28 | Folly sat up ; then clutched the sheet to her as she realised with a shock that she was naked . |
| 29 | He realised with a shock that he was nervous — as nervous as a randy adolescent on a hot date — and likely to be about as subtle ! |
| 30 | He realised with a flash of almost ludicrous detachment that the hand that was trying to grasp him was now fully formed , and was the one that he had cut the fingers off when slamming the steel door . |