Example sentences of "realise [Wh adv] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
| 2 | You realise how subtle it is when you watch a beaver painstakingly placing a pole on its dam , being visibly dissatisfied with its position , removing it and tugging it into another , until it is at last convinced that it has been effectively deployed . |
| 3 | I know girls in their twenties who do , so I realise how fortunate I am . |
| 4 | Very few people realise how expensive they are , and if you can remind people subtly of how much time , you know , how much money is actually going , erm , it , it tends to focus people 's minds . |
| 5 | Penelope Fitzgerald 's prose is as clear as glass , and you realise how much she has n't said only when you stop laughing . |
| 6 | The strain in his voice made her realise how much he still held his emotions on a tight rein and his dark eyes roamed over her hungrily as he undressed in the soft lamplight . |
| 7 | That 's right , then you realise how little it is . |
| 8 | Now have a really good stretch , then relax and pause for a moment as you realise how good you feel . |
| 9 | Then relax and pause for a moment as you realise how good you feel . |
| 10 | As you do them , realise how good you feel . |
| 11 | Realise how good you feel as you do them . |
| 12 | A counter tot his viewpoint is that patients often only realise how unwell they were in retrospect after commencing a gluten free diet and had come to accept quite marked ill health as normal . |
| 13 | Mr Dorman said : ‘ There is a great myth that pianos and electrical organs are difficult to learn but once people try them they realise how easy they are . ’ |
| 14 | ( The diagram on the instruction leaflet is not very clear , however , so this is likely to be one of those times when you take quite a while to figure out how the confounded things fit together , and then feel a bit daft when you realise how easy it is . ) |
| 15 | ( The diagram on the instruction leaflet is not very clear , however , so this is likely to be one of those times when you take quite a while to figure out how the confounded things fit together , and then feel a bit daft when you realise how easy it is . ) |
| 16 | I doubt if Calder will take it any further once he 's had time to think it over and realise how upset you were . |
| 17 | The problem now is finding the right sort of staff reliable ladies with their own transport as more people realise how nice it is to come back to a house someone else has cleaned . ’ |
| 18 | I hope they read this book and realise how happy they made me feel . |
| 19 | I realise how dead I am most of the time ; dead but desperate . |
| 20 | Editor , — Does the surgical senior registrar who seems to have performed an unnecessary internal examination under anaesthesia without consent before an appendicectomy realise how lucky he is not to have been charged with battery ? |
| 21 | What matters most are the attitudes of teachers to parents and parents to teachers — whether there is genuine mutual respect , whether the parents understand what the schools are doing for individual children and ( whether ) teachers realise how dependent they are upon parental support . |
| 22 | The idea that meaningful research could be done successfully without experiment still leaves some chemists feeling insecure , although many chemists now realise how slow they were to embrace quantum mechanics as a tool . |
| 23 | The strength and potential of the modern concern for curriculum development lies in the fact that we now realise how important it is to undertake these processes , and in a logical sequence . |
| 24 | you realise how important it is , that a , you 've got to learn self control in life , and that 's what Jenny learnt , she , she , never had to learn it , she had it from naturally from a , a little child . |
| 25 | Yeah cos he realise I mean , he often says oh well , you know , she made me turn against my family and be horrible and he says I have n't had time , he says I realise how wrong I was . |
| 26 | The conversation about oxtail had made her realise how hungry she was and she stopped at a delicatessen shop on the way home and bought a pizza . |
| 27 | The police say they 're considering charges against the 3 youths , but add that the youths now realise how foolish they were to fire the replica in the street and are deeply sorry for frightening the family . |
| 28 | What we need to do is steal his thunder in some way so that he realises how pointless it would be to write a story or even make any of those veiled suggestions that reporters of his ilk seem to be so good at . ’ |
| 29 | The peace and tranquility of the Norfolk countryside make me realise how fortunate we are , and all the more conscious of the trials and sorrows that so many people are suffering both in this country and around the world . |
| 30 | ‘ Do you realise how close you are , right this minute , to the bread line ? ’ |