Example sentences of "[pron] realise [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 2 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 3 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 4 | She realised for the first time how Benjamin must be feeling . |
| 5 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 6 | Speechless , she glared at him , then felt the colour start back to her cheeks as she realised for the first time what he was dressed in , which was very little indeed . |
| 7 | But as she sipped the hot , reviving brew , she realised for the first time since buying the house just how very quiet it was — eerily quiet . |
| 8 | She realised with a slight shock that she was staring straight at a man who was looking in through the shop window , staring back . |
| 9 | She realised with a suppressed groan that she was forced to justify herself to the chief superintendent in the same terms as she had defended herself against Christine Mills . |
| 10 | She paid her bill and wandered back to where she had parked the car in a shady spot under an orange tree in a square — She did n't know a lot about Fernando Serra , she realised with a dull bumping of her heart . |
| 11 | No — it was n't fear of being alone she was experiencing , she realised with a hollow pang inside — it was something much more basic than that , but just as alien to her character . |
| 12 | She winced , the force of his brutal remark piercing through her like a sharp knife , the suggestion of other women hurting so badly that she realised with a sick sensation that she was jealous . |
| 13 | Except , she realised with a sudden sense of shock , the ship was moving and she had n't even noticed until now . |
| 14 | But then he was n't likely to believe anything good about her , she realised with a sudden profound pang of sorrow . |
| 15 | SHe realised with a dreadful clench of the stomach that SHe was a morsel of raw flesh being thrown into a blood-spiced pool of hungry sharks . |
| 16 | She realised with a sinking heart that the longer her mother-in-law remained at the Manor , the more difficult it would be to dislodge her . |
| 17 | And that , she realised with an increasing feeling of horror , was the whole awful crux of the matter . |
| 18 | She realised from the quizzical looks that met this further information that she had made matters worse rather than better . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was these journeys that made him realise to the full how many of the world 's species were on the brink of extinction . |
| 20 | Increasingly , he realised with a certain satisfaction that this was a family of shame and scandal . |
| 21 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
| 22 | ‘ So you will not consider me , after all our friendship ? ’ he asked , and Emily moved restlessly ; he realised for the first time that all her movements were studied . |