Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] realize that " in BNC.

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1 If one person chooses to cause serious injury to another , it should be presumed that he or she realizes that there is always a risk of death , and such cases show a sufficiently wanton disregard for life as to warrant the label ‘ murder ’ if death results .
2 Her hair was much longer and blonder , although I realized that the latter was probably due to the awful quality of the recording .
3 Although I realized that my faulty literary judgment was the occasion for his reaction — for he must have been well-accustomed to reading manuscripts of surpassing dullness — because when lie wrote to Wakefield-Harrey it was in firm but polite terms , which , since they were from Eliot , were to him the next best thing to commendation .
4 It was only then that I realized that ‘ psychoanalysis ’ looks very much like ‘ yellow elastic ’ on the lips .
5 It was at this point — a year or so into our campaign — that I realized that my efforts were not always appreciated by the other members of the group .
6 It was only later that I realized that the tears were caused by rage and not by sadness .
7 I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse .
8 It was only now that I realized that Lineker was n't Arabic for goal !
9 It was only when everyone rose to their feet , shook hands and made a beeline for the cooking tent — where , it emerged , Balvinder Singh had been for the last half-hour — that I realized that the ceremony was over .
10 It was then that I realized that he was going to leave me on my own .
11 But er I then explained to them that I realize that it does n't actually matter and it 's the quality of the image that you produce that matters and not what it 's made of or on .
12 Some people tend to take advantage of a placid nature — that is only human — so I realized that in order to prevent abuse of my personality I would have to put up a barrier to protect my inner self .
13 Sara curtsied , and backed to the door ; and it was only when it had closed behind her and she was standing on the long , tiled landing that she realized that her future mother-in-law had not once asked about her family in Ireland .
14 She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean .
15 that you realized that it was so cold
16 It is only when you test the possibility of buying , the price and delivery , and the actual consequences , that you realize that you have constrained your thinking unnecessarily .
17 So that there , there may be a , an important personnel problem th th that you realize that well okay the option of going for land reform is , is there but you 're saying er it 's likely trouble my experience of the past is that , that radical land reform is , is disruptive it could affect production , it could get out of hand , it could alienate people in order to control them we need a lot cadres on the ground and we have n't got them .
18 This is easy once you realize that a Grand Canyon trip is an encounter group and not a river trip .
19 Trying an idea out on somebody is a very good way of exposing flaws in your argument , and in fact if we look at the present energy debate , so much of it is concerned with interpretation which one would have thought , taking a simple view of science , were just factual matters that we realize that this discussion of science is perhaps more difficult than people would imagine , so there is opportunity in the course to try and help students to become more fluent in scientific discussion , discussion of scientific ideas between themselves , and of their own ideas about science .
20 Pupils reached the point where they could say that they realized that someone — namely their teachers and their tutors — knew them very well .
21 but there was n't said at the council , they said that they realize that what there has to be done ca n't be done so , so quickly , you see the past in what er back end of October
22 Once they realized that no presents could ever be exactly the same and that they could help him to take pleasure in his sister 's presents by pointing out the good features of one of her new toys to her they felt more confident in coping with his reactions .
23 In reality children usually start to lose interest after about two weeks once they realize that they can earn them relatively easily .
24 It was only when it shut with a rusty creak that he realized that he had company .
25 He went on to say that he realized that Hall 's larger scheme might not materialize , but he thought that Government Offices in a similar style to his building would eventually extend to Great George Street where they would be seen in relation to the Abbey and the Houses of Parliament .
26 As he was a brilliant classical scholar , it is possible that he realized that what he had discovered was in line with one of Hippocrates ' systems , formulated so many centuries before .
27 It was only on glancing again at his watch at three minutes to one and wondering what time the Substitute would turn up that he realized that the Substitute was the reason why .
28 The Ambassador replied that he realized that no statement could be made on this subject and he himself had avoided making any such statement which he felt might prove embarrassing .
29 Although some ducal servants were heavily involved , Gloucester emerges from the mass of evidence as a fairly distant figure , who settled immediately once he realized that the dispute had pitted him against his mother .
30 Although some ducal servants were heavily involved , Gloucester emerges from the mass of evidence as a fairly distant figure , who settled immediately once he realized that the dispute had pitted him against his mother .
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