verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
achieve/fulfil/reach/realize your potential (= succeed as much as you have the potential to succeed )
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A lot of athletes find it difficult to achieve their potential.
achieve/fulfil/realize a dream (= do or get what you want )
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He had finally achieved his dream of winning an Olympic gold medal.
achieve/fulfil/realize your ambition (= do what you wanted to do )
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It took her ten years to achieve her ambition.
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He was prepared to go to any lengths to fulfil his ambition.
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I want to thank all those who made it possible for me to realize a lifetime 's ambition.
know/realize the extent of sth
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We do not yet know the extent of the damage.
realize your error
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By the time she realized her error, it was too late.
realize your mistake
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As soon as he realized his mistake he turned in the right direction.
realize/grasp the implications (= understand what they are )
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The government has been slow to grasp the implications of the current teacher shortage.
recognize/realize the importance of sth
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We all recognize the importance of his work.
suddenly realized
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I suddenly realized that there was someone following me.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
even
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And the big slob didn't even realize how objectionable he was.
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The sales pitch can be so slick that many consumers don't even realize they have bought magazines until the bill arrives.
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Without even realizing it, she had begun to back away.
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Muriel, eleven, never even realized what had happened.
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She sits and watches, and they do not even realize that she has provoked them to it.
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Had we run the falls without even realizing it?
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They gave me no encouragement at all and didn't even realize I was so into football.
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They may not even realize how awful they make you and your sisters feel.
how
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Penn said a decade passed before he realized how profoundly the experience had influenced him.
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Don't you realize how extremely proud that man was?
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Did Cornell realize how extensive his legacy would be over time?
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He was beginning to realize how very little he understood about either Edward or Katherine Schumacher.
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Norm had never realized how tiny Greene was, until now.
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Why hadn't she realized how hopeless she had become, how she had forgotten everything during those months of pregnancy?
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Sometimes when Rob realized how much he had old Albert, he felt uncomfortable.
never
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That stupid Agnes never realizes how strong she is, Perdita thought.
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You know, I never realized until now just how nice it was.
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Gabriel had never realized how many sick or imperfect people there were in the world.
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I had never realized how lovely they were, how kind, how unfailingly polite.
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I never realized just how evil you rally are.
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I had never realized before what a rich source of endorsement and approval mere weight loss could be.
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I never realized what good fun fishing was.
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Beavis and Butt-head never realized Daria was insulting them, which was part of the humor and also part of their attraction.
soon
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She soon realized that these activities were incompatible.
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At first she dumped the garden waste, but she soon realized this would make excellent garden compost.
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He soon realized he had made a dreadful mistake.
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But unlike the Fool, we soon realize that Zampano does not mean what he says.
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He realized soon , though, that there was a problem.
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He ran to midcourt and hugged Barros, but soon realized that 0. 8 seconds remained on the clock.
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This is not the book of a scholar, as you will soon realize , but that of a genuine enthusiast.
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His engineers soon realized that this was almost as ludicrous.
suddenly
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I suddenly realized that there were a lot of worthwhile things I could do if I were reprieved.
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Gabby felt tears sting her eyes, suddenly realizing the full force of what was happening.
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I realized suddenly that this was all.
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I said, suddenly realizing that this man was no Saturday-night drunk.
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Yes, she realized suddenly , that was it.
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Glover suddenly realized that he linked both this boy and Lois with the end of his privacy.
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I've suddenly realized how bizarre this situation is.
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I tried to sound composed, not to show courage but because I suddenly realized it was simply the only alternative.
■ NOUN
dream
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In the fourth sentence, the focus suddenly shifts to talking about creators in general and how they realize their dreams .
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They went on dreaming , but they could not exercise their power to realize their dreams.
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But even on the verge of realizing her dream , Gupta is having second thoughts.
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Now, however, he realized that those dreams were just fantasies and could never be fulfilled.
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But the man who made it possible for Texans to realize their dreams of legally hiding handguns, Republican Gov.
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He never came close to realizing his dream of winning the presidency.
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Some people dream great dreams, but they never develop a plan complete with goals and tactics to realize their dreams.
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Hope dies when there is no way of realizing our dreams .
mistake
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By the time they realized their mistake and released Mohiuddin, it was too late.
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The driver later realized his mistake and notified police.
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By 10.00am we realize our mistake in not pressing on all night.
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Prison officials calculated that she would be released this summer, realizing their mistake only this week.
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Almost inevitably Schultz had gone to the wrong church and had let his staff car go before realizing his mistake .
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Too late, she realized her mistake .
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In time, of course, they realized their mistake .
people
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It is worth pointing out that more work had been done by the pathfinders than many people realize .
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Few people realize where the cluster fly comes from.
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However public protests are also gathering momentum as people realize that shrimp farming seems to be a recipe for disaster.
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In fact, however, the experiences of men and women are much closer than most people realize .
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There's certainly one mobile unit on the market at the moment, though not many people realize it.
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A centre spread in the Evening Standard brought a new cascade. People were realizing that they had a choice.
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She felt she should hang up. People , she suddenly realized , could be awful.
potential
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Supporters like Jim Cummins maintain that heritage language teaching is an important step in helping immigrant students realize their potential .
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But as you grow in confidence, and experience, you will be able to realize your full potential .
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A research programme must be given a chance to realize its full potential .
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Under Adenauer and Schmidt it realized its full potential .
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The essential condition for realizing this potential is the overthrow of all forms of oppression.
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As though it does not matter that half of humanity have been prohibited from realizing their potential .
■ VERB
begin
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When the rumour reached Gabriel she began to realize what she would say to John Coffin.
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She could see his old confidence flooding back as he began to realize that everything was working out very conveniently ....
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But now, at last, Californians have begun to realize they are about to lose their landscape heritage.
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As we travel through life, we begin to realize that grief and deep disappointments lie beneath the surface of our lives.
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He began to realize just how much he knew, and began to think about being an announcer himself.
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Slothrop's search, however, has scarcely begun before he realizes that he himself is under investigation.
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And I began to realize that this is something I have to do.
beginning
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He was beginning to realize how very little he understood about either Edward or Katherine Schumacher.
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Community links Many schools are beginning to realize that a home page also can be a link to their communities.
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We are also beginning to realize that there are reciprocal interactions between steroids and behaviour.
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But despite all the advancements in recent decades, computers are only now beginning to realize their potential.
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Living with her, day in day out, I was beginning to realize how unstable she is.
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Art dealers were beginning to realize that paintings could become valuable investments for speculators.
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Now I think she's beginning to realize that I scorn her.
come
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Gradually she came to realize that it was reminding her of her father - her father and the allotment.
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The oddball species, Packard was coming to realize , were the main show of the clearings.
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In later years Chapman came to realize that the extension of the league system was having a bad effect on the game.
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The first time Jasmine came home, Paylor realized she would have to raise the child.
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It soon comes to realize that to receive human company, barking for a bit should be sufficient.
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By eighth grade John had come to realize that secrecy carried its own special entitlements.
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By accessing such areas of experience awareness is raised as the range of possible connections comes to be realized .
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Had my father at last come to realize how nice it was to have our own place?
fail
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He had failed , and he realized he would have to report back on the depth of his failure.
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They fail to realize that deposits are merely book entries.
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Men generally fail to realize that there are women in the pews in pain - and others have left.
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Stalin either failed to realize this or felt he had no choice.
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What they failed to realize was that the Volunteers were not being treated differently from anyone else.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
little did sb know/realize/think etc
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But little did he know at the time, how soon he'd need it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"She's been promoted to chief executive." "Oh, really? I didn't realize ."
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Even Horton's family hadn't realized how sick he was, both physically and emotionally.
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I realize that you are very busy, but could I talk to you for a few minutes?
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None of us realized the danger we were in.
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Oh, is that your chair? Sorry, I didn't realize .
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The initial campaign has realized $5000 in cash and pledges.
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Tim only realized his mistake the next day.
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We were obliged to realize most of our assets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Astonishingly the Commission failed to realize that its proposed ratio of one additional member for three constituency members would be inadequate.
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Gabby felt tears sting her eyes, suddenly realizing the full force of what was happening.
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He'd cried out before he realized what the obstruction was: a pile of bollards.
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Mitch Snyder may have realized it was his best chance of making some kind of mark on the parish.
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Neither she nor many of the other pilots had the vision to realize they were looking at the future.
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Owen realized that was what they had come for.
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Then I realized it was Malpass.
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Women dieters, she realized, had been duped.