Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] first person " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poet writes in the first person singular as a man talking to a loved one about the inevitable advent of his death , and yet the matter discussed here is not so much death as the gradual disappearance of life . |
| 2 | The problems arise when we shift to the first person , asking how we come to have knowledge of the world , and asking how we are justified in dismissing the possibility that reality is wholly other than we take it to be . |
| 3 | Now , when you say to the first person ‘ point to a row across ’ if they point to a row without a king you say ‘ You pointed to this I will take it away ’ . |
| 4 | So ‘ Rasta ’ , ‘ Rusty ’ and ‘ Camley ’ featured in the first Roman Candle Their adventures were related in the first person , so giving a ‘ hume ’ character to the otherwise mute and very much stuffed fluffy playthings . |
| 5 | Gone were the carefree , witty passages written in the first person , the conversational style , the caustic bitter comments . |
| 6 | ‘ The Friends ’ is written in the first person narrative , it is rather clear and direct , but it too later develops , conveying the emotions of an ardent adolescent growing up into womanhood . |
| 7 | ‘ The Collector ’ is arranged in three parts , each told in the first person by Clegg , Miranda , then Clegg again . |
| 8 | Enright , the demonstrative " this ' highlights the spatial dimension of an implied situation of utterance , and therefore mobilises a poetic persona functioning as deictic centre even if no explicit reference is made to a first person speaker . |
| 9 | ‘ The Great Gatsby ’ is also told in the first person , but not by either of the main characters . |
| 10 | Outside a grand villa in the same city , a priest in an assortment of ramshackle clothing stopped his mule in the gateway , descended by lifting a leg and bellowed to the first person he met , which was Tobie . |
| 11 | The cantata ends with Dido still speaking in the first person . |
| 12 | right , ah may I call on the first person to whom this is going to be I believe you speak on the |
| 13 | Their inspired utterances , which were cast in the first person as direct statements by the Paraclete , were collected . |
| 14 | It 's when one moves into the first person that problems occur . |
| 15 | It consists of two alternating narratives , one of which is set in the eighteenth century and the other in the present , with the earlier delivered in the first person . |
| 16 | The point , in short , is that such an existent is typically someone who knows and refers to himself as " I myself " , and that all reports that identify this existent in an essential way will have to be phrased in the first person singular . |
| 17 | The dearth was of persons who could give the only kind of witness that counts with those looking for help , the kind that is couched in the first person singular ’ ( Trueblood 1961:51 ) . |
| 18 | Something which is liked by the first person you show it to is likely to appeal to many more people . |
| 19 | ‘ One ’ was a word of the Chelsea set for the first person singular , and one might perhaps venture the thought of a pun in the words of the inscription . |
| 20 | ‘ Sorry , is it you or me , but one of us appears to be working in the first person . ’ |
| 21 | Immediately after his generalization about " " eelde " " he returns to the first person plural — " " owre olde lemes " " ( 3886 ) — and within two lines is back to " " ik " " . |