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Example sentences for "realise that"

  • Unless we realise that fact we are not competent to decide on a sound European policy.

  • These great pioneers were thoughtful, cautious, hard-headed men, who spoke scarcely above a whisper, and were far too modest to realise that a great forward movement in natural evolution had in them begun to be manifested.

  • Now we have awakened to realise that we belong to a people who have been "fighting about half the time.

  • I think the Directors are beginning to realise that, sir.

  • I'm very sorry, Mrs. Jackman, but I just wanted you to realise that I've done my best with this gentleman.

  • But I had somehow failed to realise that it might be impossible, under certain circumstances, to buy Punch if I wanted it.

  • Looking back over it all now I realise that I must have blundered horribly, and trodden, without intending to, on all sorts of tender feet.

  • Before that order came out the ladies had failed to realise that it was their duty to deck themselves in scarlet, green, and gold, to save the rest of us from depression.

  • Oh, Jim dearest, try to realise that I have not said one word to you which was not completely truthful!

  • You must try to sleep, dear; but first I want you to realise that we are not alone.

  • I could, under different circumstances, have brought myself to follow Ingleby, because I realise that he never awakened in you such love as is yours for me.

  • Once or twice a half-nervous chuckle broke from him as he tried to realise that he had been given the chance which a year ago had seemed so impossible that its mere incredibleness had made it a natural subject for jokes.

  • Betty began early to realise that as her companions did not talk of Timbuctoo or Zanzibar, so they did not talk of New York.

  • That the charm of my visit, to myself, is that I realise that I am rather like that.

  • We need, even more than Israel in its bondage did, to realise that we are strangers and pilgrims.

  • And if we realise that we are under 'the pure eyes and perfect judgment of' God, we shall thereby be strongly urged and mightily helped to be perfect as He is perfect.

  • It is only when we realise that there is no other permanence for us that we put out our hands and grasp at the Eternal, in order not to be swept away upon the dark waves of the rushing stream of Time.

  • She could hardly begin to realise that it was indeed over, that the storm she had foreseen for so long had burst at last, sweeping away the Governor in headlong overthrow, and leaving her bruised and battered indeed, but still alive.

  • One needs but examine a tinted population map to realise that.

  • It points to collective ownership with no indication of the administrative scheme it contemplates to realise that intention.

  • We have watched a little longer, and with great relief we begin to realise that it is the modern world that is fading.

  • Read some of the earliest criticisms of Mr. Yellowplush or Michael Angelo Titmarsh and you will realise that at the very beginning there was more potential clumsiness and silliness in Thackeray than there ever was in Dickens.

  • Evidently, according to this system, the best function of education is to enable us to realise that to live as a man is great, requiring profound philosophy for its ideal, poetry for its expression, and heroism in its conduct.

  • If you'd been present at our interview, you'd realise that 'a little aversion' is a cloying euphemism for the feeling exhibited by my late preserver.

  • Never before had he ventured so far from home, and he began to realise that he had been flying much longer than he knew or intended.

  • In a single second, before he had time to realise that he felt surprise, the entire memory of his recent experiences vanished from his mind.

  • The force drawing him was a constant force without rise or fall; and with a deadly feeling of fear the boy began to realise that he would soon have to yield to it altogether.

  • Fabre, hardly seems to realise that in Forel it is fortunate enough to possess an observer of nature whose insight is no less keen than that of Fabre, and whose scientific endowments are perchance even richer and more unerring.

  • We do not wish to make peace; we simply wish to realise that we have peace.

  • To recognize that a particular advance is not impracticable even though we should fail to realise that advance, seems to me more encouraging than the belief that, whatever we attempt, we shall run our heads against a stone wall.

  • He was too intoxicated with passion to realise that it would also seem more dignified!

  • The Duke was sufficiently master of himself to realise that it was wiser to take her advice.

  • I saw that place coming into the city, but I didn't realise that it was the same land as on the sketch.

  • How it is to me, now, to realise that a great ruler truly served his people!

  • Manguino was shocked to realise that so many knew of Devil.

  • In The White Man's Burden it expires outright, so that reading it, it is difficult to realise that William the Conqueror has had the power so deeply to move us.

  • Mr Kipling's warrior tales, in fact, allow us clearly to realise that Mr Kipling's real inspiration and interest is far away from the battle-field and the barrack.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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