Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] singular " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | In other words , there is an asymmetry between the third person singular , present tense , use of the verb — for example , ‘ He believes … ’ — and the first person singular , present tense , use — ‘ I believe … ’ . |
| 5 | So ( v ) what a person says , using the first person singular , present tense , of a psychological verb , is true or false precisely in so far as it is an expression of what he has inwardly observed . |
| 6 | But ( vii ) people do say things , using the first person singular , present tense , of psychological verbs , which are sometimes true , sometimes false . |
| 7 | Is what was said earlier — what a person says , using the first person singular , present tense , of a psychological verb , is true or false precisely in so far as it is an expression of what he has inwardly observed — true of ‘ I know ’ ? |
| 8 | A possible response to this may be that if we want to understand the concept of knowledge we must treat the use of ‘ I know ’ ( the activity of avouching ) as the primary thing , but that there are other psychological verbs — such as ‘ I hope ’ — in which a speaker using the first person singular of the present tense does simply express his mental state . |
| 9 | Some writers express humility in a particularly strange way : when they wish to express an opinion but feel that the first person singular is too assertive , they use the plural ( ‘ we submit ’ ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And take the first person singular : Ich . |
| 12 | The poet writes in the first person singular as a man talking to a loved one about the inevitable advent of his death , and yet the matter discussed here is not so much death as the gradual disappearance of life . |