Example sentences of "[coord] the [num ord] person " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one thinks in terms of the ‘ cosmic Christ ’ , or the second person of the trinity , one conceives of Christ as God rather than as a human . |
| 2 | According to this view , there would be an entry for a base form like sing , but not for the present participle singing , or the 3rd person singular present sings . |
| 3 | But Fate took a hand , as it has a habit of doing , and the first person I encountered in the hut was Barbara , who was putting the final touches to her make-up before going to the dance herself . |
| 4 | And the first person I danced with was ‘ him ’ . |
| 5 | Mr Dingle — The family solicitor and the first person to die — not surprising when the will contains some nasty surprises . |
| 6 | The leader then calls for items , and the first person from one of the teams brings the article and places it on the chair . |
| 7 | In other words , there is an asymmetry between the third person singular , present tense , use of the verb — for example , ‘ He believes … ’ — and the first person singular , present tense , use — ‘ I believe … ’ . |
| 8 | The object language is already taken to contain attitude operators and the first person pronoun . |
| 9 | For the moment , we shall limit our discussion of this question to those features which relate directly to the deictic context , those features which will permit interpretation for deictic expressions like the temporal expression now , the spatial expression here , and the first person expression I. Are there standard procedures for determining what information is relevant to the interpretation of these expressions ? |
| 10 | Then my dad 's car was here , and the first person who came out was my dad and he came and put his arm round me . |
| 11 | Ian MacWilliam , a customer at Dumfries High Street , and the first person to use the facility . |
| 12 | ( b ) If a first person owes the victim a sum of money , the accused forges an assignment from the victim to him , and the first person pays the accused , the accused has stolen property ( and obtained it by deception ) . |
| 13 | Cynthia Sludgebucket — The major 's daughter , and the second person to die when a piano decides to commit suicide . |
| 14 | The first person chooses an item beginning with the letter A and the second person repeats this , and continues with a word beginning with the letter B. The third person repeats the first two and adds a word beginning with the letter C , and so on . |
| 15 | Suppose he suggests that the Incarnation might just as well have taken a female as a male form , and the Second Person of the Trinity be as well called the Daughter as the Son … . |
| 16 | ( x , y ) denotes that the first person gets a quantity x and the second person a quantity y For each of the following allocations say whether they are ( i ) efficient and ( ii ) equitable : ( a ) ( 10 , 0 ) ( b ) ( 7 , 2 ) ( c ) ( 5 , 5 ) ( d ) ( 3 , 6 ) ( e ) ( 0 , 10 ) . |
| 17 | Mira herself makes several appearances , both in the first and the third persons , before also discovering that her name is on the list as the delegate from Amalgamemnon , whereupon she too ‘ dies ’ . |
| 18 | The important point in the present context is that the change from present to past tense destroys the identity of the plural noun ( in this example lies ) and the third person singular verb ( again lies ) . |
| 19 | Rose gave a tiny stifled scream and the third person in the bay window proved itself to be a young man by throwing back his head and shouting with laughter . |
| 20 | There is an unconditional appropriation when the goods are identified and the third person acknowledges that he now holds them for the buyer , Wardars ( Import & exports ) v. W. Norwood ( 1968 C.A. ) . |
| 21 | The second person into the flat and immediately very , very close behind to P C was myself and the third person into the flat would have been P C . |
| 22 | She was the first person I met when I joined the Waaf , and the last person I saw as I left it . |
| 23 | Anyone moving or laughing is out , and the last person remaining is the winner and probably has the worst sense of humour ! |
| 24 | Virginia Bottomley is a very nice woman : soft-spoken and yet forceful , articulate and obviously clever , and the last person I expected to talk to about my job . |
| 25 | It was nothing serious , she knew that , just a bad bruise in need of cleaning , and the last person in the world she wanted to do the cleaning was him . |
| 26 | She knew that Ana was safe with Mitch and the last person she wanted to see was Candace Rainford . |
| 27 | One way and another John had had his fill of the theory of price lately , and the last person he wanted to take lessons in economics from was an avaricious north Welsh merchant . |
| 28 | The fourth person would have been P C The fifth person P C and the last person forming part of the firearms team er would have been P C . |
| 29 | and the last person I want to see leaving is Alec |
| 30 | and I just did n't agree with it and I 'm trying to sort of , they say in your subconscious you do sort of look at and the last person erm , will look at you , you get |