Sentence examples for realise at first from inspiring English sources

I didn't realise at first, but they were negotiating simultaneously with Kevin Maxwell.

Shaun and his mates don't realise at first that London's denizens have been transformed into blank-eyed zombies; then all comic hell breaks loose.

What I didn't realise at first, though, was that not all candidates for a life in France are received so warmly.

"When I saw the pictures of the rioting and looting on TV later in the evening I didn't realise at first that it followed on from our protest".

In September 2012, Hockney had a stroke: he didn't realise at first, he'd got up early and went out to buy the newspaper, but he found himself unable to finish his sentences.

They don't realise at first what has happened, and can't explain the change to their partners, who are left to skulk in their garden sheds while the town, emotionally speaking, freezes over.

"Then," he said, "later, out in the real world, I'd find myself back in those feelings, not even realising at first where they came from".

You realise what an incredibly privileged position you're in, because you don't realise that at first – being in a band becomes real life and you don't realise how precious it is.

I didn't realise it at first, but it was a plane crash".

They don't realise it at first, because their hands are so cold, but this is the exact moment when a dozen blisters miraculously appear on each athlete's palms and, out of nowhere, instantaneously explode.

It felt like penning one almighty love letter: To Dahl, Brooks, Snicket and Rowling, but also, most importantly, without me realising it at first, to my own dad, Raymond William Ernest Earle.