Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the [adj] person " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only is this shock experienced in fieldwork , while one learns the ways of a new culture , but it is experienced even more disconcertingly when one returns to one 's own culture … two different worlds have met in the same person . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Gone were the carefree , witty passages written in the first person , the conversational style , the caustic bitter comments . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | It is written in the 2nd person , a direct message to the dead friend . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | an in and ecta er , an industry day done where you know , it 's about the qualities needed in the young person , they have a certificate that they 're going to have to say they 've got these qualities , right ? |
| 8 | ‘ The Great Gatsby ’ is also told in the first person , but not by either of the main characters . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This relates to autonomy in that creativity may flourish in freedom , but the two goals are not necessarily found in the same person ( creativity ) . |
| 11 | But otherwise the absence of specific characters defined in the third person underlines the universality and also the particularity of these poems . |
| 12 | Their inspired utterances , which were cast in the first person as direct statements by the Paraclete , were collected . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It may be noticed that insensibility both to moral appeals and to appeals to one 's future interests , imprisonment within both ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ , are often combined in the same person , and that the combination is widely accepted as the strongest criterion for classing him as ‘ psychopathic ’ and exempting him from moral judgment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is , perhaps , unrealistic to expect all these roles and responsibilities to be vested in the one person of the fertility counsellor , who works in an underfunded area of treatment where resources are continually diminishing . |
| 19 | Merger can be applied for when the freehold and leasehold estates become vested in the same person , whether or not both titles are registered . |
| 20 | With a fictional character , described in the third person , there is nothing that may not be said . |
| 21 | In some of them the Friend is described in the third person ( often as ‘ my love ’ ) and time addressed as Thou . |