Example sentences of "those early daye " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is some syntactic ambiguity in the opening lines — we can read " when I/Shin " d " as a separate clause or as a post-modifier to " those early dayes ' . |
| 2 | Information after " those early dayes ' must lessen the deictic force of the utterance because it shifts our attention not to some presupposed referent seemingly outside the discourse ( what " early dayes ' ? ) but to something qualified within the text itself . |
| 3 | " Those early dayes ' refers to a latent discourse referent . |
| 4 | This seems to happen retrospectively , for it is the simple past tense of 'shin " d " which enables us to read the deixis of " those early dayes ' in a particular way , in direct relation to 'shin " d " . |
| 5 | In the early part of the poem there is ambiguity in the functioning of deictic expressions : an initial deictic term such as " those early dayes ' is supplemented with further deictic information " when I / Shin " d . " |
| 6 | What kind of speaker is presupposed to be uttering " Happy those early dayes ! " ? |
| 7 | ( Section 8 ) , " What kind of speaker is supposed to be uttering " Happy those early dayes " ( Section 9 ) ) , but decides to identify the poetic persona of " Nutting " with the author himself ( " … references to Wordsworth 's surroundings ' , " as the poet reaches the scene of virgin beauty " ( Section 9 ) ) . |