Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the third person " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps one of the best autobiographies ( although written in the third person ) is Flora Thompson 's Lark Rise to Candleford ( 1945 ) , followed by her later ( and not , in my opinion , as good ) Still Glides the Stream ( 1948 ) . |
| 2 | So , a text containing a first person narrative by a narrator involved in the story claiming things about the world by indirect inferences would probably be found more to the left of the network than a text told in the third person by an omniscient narrator directly asserting claims about the world . |
| 3 | But otherwise the absence of specific characters defined in the third person underlines the universality and also the particularity of these poems . |
| 4 | In Un Régicide ( 1949/1978 ) , the narrative oscillates between two apparently distinct , fictional universes : a ‘ prosaic ’ world ( recounted in the third person ) , in which a character named Boris is socially , metaphysically and politically alienated in the manner befitting an existentialist hero , intersects with the ‘ poetic ’ world of an anonymous first-person narrator who inhabits an isolated farming and fishing community . |
| 5 | With a fictional character , described in the third person , there is nothing that may not be said . |
| 6 | In some of them the Friend is described in the third person ( often as ‘ my love ’ ) and time addressed as Thou . |