Example sentences of "a [num ord] person " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most people addicted to romancing are their own heroes ’ : when a second person enters the solitude in question , Louisa Stuart 's maxim becomes harder to apply . |
| 2 | In The Wrench he creates the rigger Faussone , the practical man whose cranes girdle the world and who keeps returning , a little heavy-footed , to the house in Turin where two old aunts fuss over his welfare : Faussone was spoken of as ‘ my alter ego ’ , and the book has to struggle to accommodate him as a second person , available for interview by Levi . |
| 3 | A second person then gives out forfeits for each person to do . |
| 4 | Whoever did the planning on this job could n't have expected to find a second person getting into the car . ’ |
| 5 | Whereas hypocrisy in the tragic mode is usually revealed to the audience directly , in advance of the action , here Shakespeare makes Angelo declare himself to a second person , Isabella , confident that — as Falstaff says when he is planning his pretence of having killed Hotspur in battle — ‘ Nothing confutes me but e-yes , and nobody sees me ’ ( 1 Henry IV V.iv.125f ) : And indeed , Angelo 's position is impregnable , unless some force from outside , with superior knowledge , can expose him . |
| 6 | The questionnaire used the term ‘ mild ’ to describe all self treated episodes and ‘ severe ’ to describe all episodes where help was needed from a second person . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , but a second person may be involved — ’ |
| 8 | Undo the backnut , with a second person or piece of wedged wood stopping the tap turning . |
| 9 | If a liable person wants to claim benefit , he must tell his local council that a second person in the household has a low income . |
| 10 | He said a second person , who had been reported dead , had in fact been brought into the hospital alive and was currently undergoing treatment . |
| 11 | Further , in some Australian languages there are up to four distinct sets of primary ( as opposed to special supplementary ) kin terms : ( a ) a set of vocative terms , ( b ) a set of terms which have an implicit first person possessive feature ( i.e mean " my mother 's brother " , etc. ) , ( c ) a set of terms which have a second person possessive feature ( i.e. mean " your mother 's brother " , etc. ) and ( d ) a set of terms which have third person possessive features ( i.e. mean " his or her mother 's brother " , etc . ) . |
| 12 | A second person in the office was also reported to have received treatment for shock . |
| 13 | She even had thoughts about a sixth person who had died . |
| 14 | A fourth person was freed on £50,000 bail . |
| 15 | A fourth person died yesterday after an M1 crash involving two cars and a coach near Milton Keynes on Saturday . |
| 16 | They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility . |
| 17 | A third person gave evidence for the defendant , and a fourth person was cross-examined on that evidence . |
| 18 | Micky and the two girls were looking for a fourth person — someone having just moved out and on . |
| 19 | A fourth person dropped from the political bureau was Gen. Sisavat Keobounphanh , the Chief of General Staff and mayor of Vientiane . |
| 20 | Three people were shot dead by police , including local DP leader Arben Broxhi , who was reportedly shot in the back as he tried to calm the rioters ; a fourth person died of bullet wounds in hospital on April 4 . |
| 21 | They could not exclude a fourth person nominated by the company . |
| 22 | But a fifth person appeared in the reflection of a window , can I remove them ? |
| 23 | And I think what we should have is a fifth person which is an outstanding sales award or something like that which covers all regions cos in Europe you woul you would n't vote for any of them would you ? |
| 24 | A FIFTH person appeared in private at Hamilton Sheriff Court yesterday accused of the murder of George Hall , whose body was found in a sewage works at Bothwell last month . |
| 25 | ( b ) If a first person owes the victim a sum of money , the accused forges an assignment from the victim to him , and the first person pays the accused , the accused has stolen property ( and obtained it by deception ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The deictic references to a first person speaker " I " and to his immediate surroundings ( " these " , " here " ) explicitly indicate the presence of a fictive poetic persona functioning as deictic centre in a specific spatio-temporal context . |
| 28 | Enright , the demonstrative " this ' highlights the spatial dimension of an implied situation of utterance , and therefore mobilises a poetic persona functioning as deictic centre even if no explicit reference is made to a first person speaker . |
| 29 | It is rarely an impossibility to find a third person , and in gusty weather this must make sense . |
| 30 | So if you 're a third man , or a third woman for that matter , look out for the specially selected hotels at which you can make some fantastic savings when a third person shares a room . |