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REALIZE OR NOTICE

REALIZE OR NOTICE

Do you ____________ that you are an hour late?

You may _____________ a numb feeling in your fingers.

Did you ________________ him leaving the party early?

I __________________ how much she means to you.

None of us _____________ the danger we were in.

I suddenly __________________ that he was crying.He spilled the tea, but Mrs. Whitley did not ____________.Later, we ______________ that we had met before in Paris.

I _______________ then how hungry I was.He was too tired even to _____________ how tired and hungry he was.

Tim didn't ________________ his mistake until the next day. ....seems as though the ads in just about every magazine published for women are telling us that we should worry about the kind of little fine lines that form on dry skin. You pick up a magazine and_________an ad for a skin care product. The copy is talking about little fine lines that are beginning to form. The model, who is worried about these lines, looks as though she is twenty...

...since she was going to report you, too. And I remembered you told me once you didn't have one. Well, Mrs. Howard fussed and said how she wasn't going to go to jail on account of you. I didn't _________how scared of the law she is. Anyway, I calmed her down and told her I'd clean all the tanks in the humidifiers for her. She hates to do that, see." Mrs. Dambar thanked her for her intervention...

...because it was very important to her that she produce a happy family. Her motivation was a good one - to give her children a better home than she had had. But what she failed to ___________is that you can't control people's experiences. You can't make people "be happy" because you tell them to....

...and found that the same problems had been noticed there. By the fall of 1986, Ted's obsession with eating and drinking had become a full-scale behavior problem. We didn't ___________it during weekend visits as much as the house parents who had to deal with Ted on a regular basis. Finally we got another phone call. "Mr. Hart, we're worried about Ted..."

...crossed the Tsang Po on July 23, and reached the pilgrims' road on August 2 -- a total of eleven days. The reader is offered no explanation for this discrepancy. Though he did not immediately ___________it, when he reached this tent his troubles -- at least his physical troubles -- were temporarily at an end. He was at first, however, more than a little apprehensive...

...learn to live in a changing body. And we can learn to love it, even when it wrinkles. I know that loving an aging body isn't always easy. It's hard to watch youth slip away in the mirror and ___________that you're no longer growing up but growing old. Eventually the aging process forces you to give up an idealized forever-young image of yourself. How you feel about your aging image certainly...

...they spent more time working out than praying and were also employed as bodyguards and policemen during festivals. Few travelers to Lhasa failed to ____________ the presence of these unique men of the cloth, but none got to know them as well as Kawaguchi did, nor has anyone left us quite so full a description of them. For as always, much as he might...

...Gretchen propped her feet up on the railing and sighed. "Not now, please.""But it's worried me so much. I don't think it's fair that you should take so much blame. You've got to __________ that it's no one's fault really. Things just happen.""What blame?" Puzzled, Gretchen turned to look at the girl. "It's not your fault the ambulance took so long getting there."