Example sentences of "[pron] realise [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She realised with a slight shock that she was staring straight at a man who was looking in through the shop window , staring back .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Except , she realised with a sudden sense of shock , the ship was moving and she had n't even noticed until now .
7 But then he was n't likely to believe anything good about her , she realised with a sudden profound pang of sorrow .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 And that , she realised with an increasing feeling of horror , was the whole awful crux of the matter .
11 She realised from the quizzical looks that met this further information that she had made matters worse rather than better .
12 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 .
13 Increasingly , he realised with a certain satisfaction that this was a family of shame and scandal .
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