Example sentences of "realise [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , one can almost forgive such visual austerity when one realises what the book represents : it is the most comprehensive and stimulating anthology of twentieth-century ideas about art that has yet appeared . |
| 2 | I still did n't realise what the trouble might be , although I dare say the germ of cancer may have nestled for the first time in my mind . |
| 3 | When he does realise what the topic is , he implicates a significant lack of interest in it by changing the topic to that of his " ulterior motive " in coming to Czechoslovakia . |
| 4 | I first realised it the day of Len 's funeral , when I spilled the beans . |
| 5 | It tasted good , and before I quite realised it the glass was empty . |
| 6 | Your worships , those are the circumstances I would ask you to bear in mind that this man a ha , has four summonses against him purely as a result of really ignorance as far as purchasing documents is concerned they were in order and erm he would of produced them had he realised what the officer was saying to him and er , that he would of realised had he not been suffering the shock , but he was actually sufferance suffering at the er at the time of the accident . |
| 7 | And then she realised what the porter was really asking her . |
| 8 | Although he now realised what the phenomenon was that he had just witnessed , he found it impossible to digest the truth before his very eyes : Firelight had given birth to a baby . |
| 9 | ‘ I only realised what the problem was when I went to Kenya straight after Twin Cities . |
| 10 | It was when Lizzy was sipping her cider that she realised what the man with the leather jacket was doing . |
| 11 | The moment she came to the top step , she realised what the matter was . |
| 12 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |