Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the [num ord] person " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Gone were the carefree , witty passages written in the first person , the conversational style , the caustic bitter comments . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | It is written in the 2nd person , a direct message to the dead friend . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ The Great Gatsby ’ is also told in the first person , but not by either of the main characters . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But otherwise the absence of specific characters defined in the third person underlines the universality and also the particularity of these poems . |
| 9 | Their inspired utterances , which were cast in the first person as direct statements by the Paraclete , were collected . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | With a fictional character , described in the third person , there is nothing that may not be said . |
| 15 | In some of them the Friend is described in the third person ( often as ‘ my love ’ ) and time addressed as Thou . |