Example sentences of "first person " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Yes , she was the first person who made me realise that acting was more than just speaking and doing . |
| 4 | ( Or first person narration for that matter . ) |
| 5 | I told her she was the first person to see it since I started work on it . |
| 6 | Do n't wait around when you are that close because the first person to throw the punch is likely to be the one that scores . |
| 7 | ‘ Give these to the first person you come across , introduce yourself and see what happens , ’ she advised him , then set off on her own to the kitchen . |
| 8 | First , an objector might try to press the fashionable distaste for the first-person perspective and say that the fact that I can not apply the theory to myself shows nothing except that one should not approach the philosophy of mind via the first person . |
| 9 | However , Jean-Pierre Hocke , the UN High Commissioner for Refugees , is hardly the first person in the job to prefer the pointy end of a jumbo jet . |
| 10 | First Person |
| 11 | The use of nursery rhyme , prayer , and the splitting of the poem in section V , confirm this ‘ authorlessness , , and the one time when the first person singular is employed , in section II , the reader senses a fear localized in the images used , more than in their beholder . |
| 12 | I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around . |
| 13 | ‘ I used to run competitions offering a free T-shirt to the first person who arrived at the station with a burger and chips . |
| 14 | That particular guy was the first person out , then I was just about the second out . |
| 15 | NO DOUBT I shall not be the first person to point out to your wine buff Malcolm Gluck ( Domaine Anthea ‘ 87 , et al , Food & Drink , October 28 ) that it was Althea — not Anthea — who received a note written from prison . |
| 16 | Robert Darby , 26 , of the Isle of Dogs , east London , is the first person in Britain to be imprisoned in connection with the organistion of the parties . |
| 17 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 18 | And despite her best entreaties , this Woking housewife achieved instant fame as the first person to miss the deadline for the much-hyped water offer . |
| 19 | To which the best answer is : a lot better than the first person in any queue organised by Mr Kaufman . |
| 20 | Do you remind them of Angela Williams , the first person to be prosecuted for smoking on the tube or of Paul Deiring , the first person to be jailed for smoking on the tube ( he could n't pay his £25 fine ) or do you make like Eric Butler , the Bernard Goetz of the Victoria Line , who , in 1987 , mocked and taunted by drunken youths , retaliated with a sword-stick and was punished in the courts for his efforts . |
| 21 | Do you remind them of Angela Williams , the first person to be prosecuted for smoking on the tube or of Paul Deiring , the first person to be jailed for smoking on the tube ( he could n't pay his £25 fine ) or do you make like Eric Butler , the Bernard Goetz of the Victoria Line , who , in 1987 , mocked and taunted by drunken youths , retaliated with a sword-stick and was punished in the courts for his efforts . |
| 22 | The first person she met was the Manager of Managers , a man nearing retiring age . |
| 23 | Away from his business , Christopher craved only peace and solitude , now shared with her — the first person ever to share it . |
| 24 | I was the first person to take him simply as he was , and for that he showed his gratitude by giving me a light kiss on the cheek in the darkened carriage . |
| 25 | Their inspired utterances , which were cast in the first person as direct statements by the Paraclete , were collected . |
| 26 | The first person who came to see me was n't Doone after all but Tremayne . |
| 27 | It 's when one moves into the first person that problems occur . |
| 28 | The first person clearly to express this idea was the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz , who wrote in 1866 that to see things is to form ‘ unconscious conclusions from analogy ’ : by an analogy he meant a pre-existing theory , or model , of what the world is like . |
| 29 | The first person to succumb was Roy Hattersley . |
| 30 | Anatole Kaletsky , the Times economics correspondent , who was the first person to expose the punitive nature of John Smith 's shadow Budget . |