Example sentences of "realise [that] i [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 I realise that I had been less than a block away , watching the drugstore explode .
2 I 've spent the night thinking about everything that happened , and I now realise that I made a mistake about you being involved with Harry Martin . ’
3 You must have realised that I resented him . ’
4 My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water .
5 ‘ I had n't realised that I needed to be a hypochondriac to qualify for your — affections . ’
6 When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 .
7 I felt a strong feeling of nausea as I realised that I had put my hand through the chest of a dead British soldier that could have been lying in the ditch for several days .
8 I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment .
9 When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year .
10 ‘ I soon realised that I had a very limited view of what venture capital was all about , ’ he recalls .
11 Towards the end of the war I realised that I had had both friends and enemies at Southern Command .
12 I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school .
13 I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location .
14 I realised that I had only just been in time before all traces of cropmarks had been obliterated .
15 They — the earrings — belonged to my mother , so I value them , and naturally I was very concerned when I realised that I had lost — ’
16 Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement .
17 While I was Iying there , waiting , I realised that I had n't told Paul where to hit the bomb .
18 As I made the turn and dive I realised that I had lost lateral control and the wing " roll and dive " was increasing alarmingly .
19 ‘ But I realised that I had spoken too soon , ’ he continued .
20 I realised that I fitted happily into that sort of setting .
21 I realised that I needed something that was a bit more active and fairly creative , preferably something that included both sexes .
22 After reading some articles about close-up and fish photography , I realised that I needed a single lens reflex ( sir ) camera , where the image seen through the viewfinder is actually produced by the lens .
23 This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention .
24 ‘ I realised that I needed someone strong who was next to me and she is it , ’ says Sacha .
25 And then , not very long after retirement , I realised that I did n't rally want excitement any more — though perhaps a little bit of the exotic would n't go amiss now and then !
26 By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic !
27 I had never before consciously thought about my kidney — or rather my kidneys — hardly realising that I had any .
28 By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’
29 So taken was I with this vision of perfect Iceland that I did not realise that I had walked into a skua colony , not , that is , until one fearless great skua hit me .
30 I did n't realise that I had not completely accepted Zoe .
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