Example sentences of "[prep] the first person [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Susan uses me for the first person pronoun [ G2 ] , and unmarked past tense [ G4 ] in tell , see , pick and run , and she has initial /t/ in ting , " thing " [ P17 ] . |
| 3 | All these symptoms are displayed by the central consciousness in Out : a breakdown of reality-testing , the concretization of words , organ-speech , omission of the first person pronoun , the proliferation of contradictions , and perception of language as pure sound and as excrement . |
| 4 | Similarly , there is a form of the first person pronoun specifically reserved for the use of the Japanese Emperor ( Fillmore , 1971b : 6 ) . |
| 5 | Green , for example , repeatedly wonders about the identity of the first person speaker in " The retreate " ( " who is the " " I " " of the utterance ? " |
| 6 | Dickens does this all with the first person narrative in the form of Pip , the narrator and main character of the story . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 " " . |