Example sentences of "person [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not , I 'm not a hat person me |
| 2 | ‘ The person I want to meet is … |
| 3 | I never really got to know her She was the most obtuse person I ever met . |
| 4 | I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a very special person I want you to meet at the concert tomorrow . |
| 6 | That 's one person I know where to find . ’ |
| 7 | But what a boring person I am , she thought , to need constant reassurance ! |
| 8 | If there was just one person I could talk to it would n't be so bad . ’ |
| 9 | The person I saw that morning in the sunny gallery of the Palacio de Anaya reminded me of James Dean , not so much in physical appearance , though they were alike in presenting the essence of a certain youthful American type of the period , as in an instant personal magnetism , a cocksure and irresistible sexual charm . |
| 10 | The person I had seen could have not the slightest interest in a beat-up old poet like me . |
| 11 | And : ‘ You are the purest person I 've ever known . ’ |
| 12 | The only person I ever felt I might fall in love with again in the same way was a Japanese , the poet Takahashi Mutsuo . |
| 13 | ‘ That person I was living with , ’ she chuckled , ‘ she thought a lot of you when you came to see us . |
| 14 | Ours is not a kissing family — that is , what one might call social kissing ; but there was one person I always kissed , my husband 's Aunt Nesta . |
| 15 | Of my aunt herself has been said , ‘ She was always so patient ; and so kind to the little ones ; the kindest , sweetest person I ever knew . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's about the sort of person I am , very laid back . |
| 17 | If the person I am with does not talk , then I do not talk . |
| 18 | For example one person I worked with was a single parent who had five dependent children living with her , and no other adult appeared to be involved . |
| 19 | The only person I know like that is John . |
| 20 | John is the only person I talk to about how ugly and disgusting I feel , how fat I think I am , how much I hate myself for being out of control . |
| 21 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 22 | It was not the person I had read about in all the papers and magazines . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Then Miss Harker 's the last person I should approach . ’ |
| 24 | One person I do like is the late Angela Carter . |
| 25 | You 're the only person I can talk to . |
| 26 | Why ca n't I ever behave like the person I want to be ? |
| 27 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |
| 28 | It heals us of depression and sadness , as if they were intrinsic to the kind of person I believe myself to be . |
| 29 | The first person I see at Birkdale is Gary player , and I ask him if he 's fixed up with a caddie . |
| 30 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |