Sentence examples for before it realised from inspiring English sources
Such ventures have failed in the past — in the 1990s, a Bill Gates-funded company, Teledesic, ran up costs of $9 billion before it realised that its satellite-powered internet was not going to work.
GM made matters worse when it bought 20% of Fiat Auto, then worth some $2 billion, before it realised how troubled the Italian car firm was.
It originally played around with the French word goût – meaning taste – before it realised people might think it was called gout, after the disease.
Mineral makeup kit, £45, from Lily Lolo Buy of the Day looked in the mirror the other day and was about to call an exorcist before it realised that no, that's just the usual January pallor.
I can hear marimba music and step out to the terrace to see who's playing it, before I realise it's the alarm on my phone.
"Many have done it before and realise it's not as glamorous as it seems," says location manager Lee Robertson, who spent several months scouting for locations before it was decided Castle Combe suited Spielberg best.
If Britain did not realise it before, it knows it now.
But the government's bold blueprint, released but barely noticed this week, has a long way to go before it is realised.
I was halfway upstairs before I realised it was in my eyes.
At one point I thought he was sweating through his glasses, before I realised it was drizzle.
