What is "realising"

Usage examples of "realising".

With Boers on his front, his flank, and even on his rear, French held grimly on, realising that a retreat upon his part would mean a greater pressure at all other points of the British advance.

I took a grip of myself, realising this was a chance I just could not afford to miss, and willed the power to flow through my quakey limbs.

Her father and his new wife had two children, and Hazel had liked them, whilst realising that she had become a convenient unpaid babysitter when she stayed with them.

What clever remarks aimed at undermining Faye might the bru nette plant without Tariq even realising it?

Peter, though, had a habit of pushing things through, almost without anyone realising, but perhaps it was inevitable, given the nature of his job, Kate had said, anxious to calm Barbs.

Rose, knowing that such a necklace existed, but not realising that the tape, if found, wasn't itself worth much and certainly not a million, may have hungered for it fiercely enough to anaesthetise everyone around at Bon-Bon's house with cyclopropane, and gather up every videotape in sight.

A contemporary account of the week's festivities says: "Although the play was thought most amusing, yet the king, realising what a resemblance there is between those who in true devoutness seek the way to Heaven, and those who with a vain show of good works none the less do evil, could not in his delicate carefulness for the things that concern religion suffer vice to be made so like virtue, that one might be taken for the other.

You stop at the pangs, Without realising that they are birth pangs.

Realising that this information would be important to the imminent inquest into the deaths, but knowing that going to the British police would see me immediately re-arrested, I wrote to the father of Dodi Al Fayed, Mr Mohamed Al Fayed, the owner of Harrods department store.

In a person of that age, consequent upon such a shock and localised haemorrhages, I suppose a brain haemorrhage` He stopped, realising what he had said.

In a person of that age, consequent upon such a shock and localised haemorrhages, I suppose a brain haemorrhage-` He stopped, realising what he had said.

He gulped and twitched a smile into place, realising with a cold sinking feeling that he might have got a little carried away.

Without realising it, he was skating into the area of the hockey game.

Without even realising it, she managed to turn a friendly, reliable, decent human being into a potential killer.

Smith opened the leading door, did his best to ignore the icy blast of wind that gusted in through the opening, and looked vertically downwards, realising that he had been over-optimistic in his assessment of the distance between cable-car and ground.