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first person perspective
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  • After a moment, he's surprised to find his thoughts racing backward to an in-class writing assignment on his first day of school last fall-a first-person autobiography in Wheelock's class.†   (source)
  • The editors demanded that I write two stories, one about the hunt itself, and a first-person story about what happened to me, one that could only make me look like an idiot.†   (source)
  • While written in the first person, my experiences are universal, and I'm no better or worse than any man I've served with.†   (source)
  • The Institute was a universe in love with the first person plural, the shout of the uniformed mob, which gave the school its fundamental identity, the source of its strength and invulnerability.†   (source)
  • Trying for my utmost, I wrote it in the first person.†   (source)
  • Worse yet is an occasional use of the first person singular in such a way as to suggest that I might have control.†   (source)
  • But then I began to acclimate to playing the game in three dimensions (and from a first-person perspective).†   (source)
  • Now, a poem must spring from a school with its own manifesto and stake its claim on the moment by means of the first-person plural and the future tense, with rhetorical questions and capital letters and an army of exclamation points!†   (source)
  • Or if you turn into one of those girlfriends, always ponying around after her boyfriend, and speaking in the first-person plural.†   (source)
  • The game's artwork depicted a first-person view of a long dungeon corridor blocked by a hulking blue giant with a large stone ax.†   (source)
  • Over the next decade, the small company took the videogame industry by storm, releasing a series of bestselling action and adventure games, all using a groundbreaking first-person graphics engine created by Halliday.†   (source)
  • Though this approach runs counter to the intensely personal, first-person writing that has become common in books and magazines, I found the exercise of attempting to adopt someone else's viewpoint to be rewarding and oddly liberating-I learned more than I could have ever imagined.†   (source)
  • There was a collection of first-person accounts of Vietnam that I read over and over again and kept on reserve.†   (source)
  • 'Ah! it's me, and me's the first person singular, nominative case, agreeing with the verb "it's", and governed by Squeers understood, as a acorn, a hour; but when the h is sounded, the a only is to be used, as a and, a art, a ighway,' replied Mr Squeers, quoting at random from the grammar.†   (source)
  • First person singular, I do not care; second person singular, thou dost not care; third person singular, she does not care,' returned Tom.†   (source)
  • I observed that the latter always spoke of himself indefinitely, as 'a man', and seldom or never in the first person singular.†   (source)
  • This progress you will see easily in that old English ballad TURPIN HERO which begins in the first person and ends in the third person.†   (source)
  • But, says he, I think it would be better if I told them in the first person, as if it were myself who had gone through them; which, indeed, will be the easier and more natural to me, since I understand the feelings and desires of the comrade of whom I am telling better than any one else in the world does.†   (source)
  • Another is the use of /will/ instead of /shall/ in the first person future.†   (source)
  • No self-respecting American, I daresay, would defend /ain't/ as a substitute [Pg146] for /isn't/, say in "he /ain't/ the man," and yet /ain't/ is already tolerably respectable in the first person, where English countenances the even more clumsy /aren't/.†   (source)
  • And being now so violently disappointed in the woman whom, at the maid's instance, he had mistaken for his wife, it never once entered into his head that she might nevertheless be in the house, though he had erred in the first person he had attacked.†   (source)
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  • She'd become the first person in history to hit someone through a phone.†   (source)
  • The first person I took was close to the door, his mind racing, then reduced to pacing, then slowing down, slowing down ….†   (source)
  • The chief minister of KPK was the first person who called.†   (source)
  • I realized that my Lobot hearing aids actually made me hear better than most people, because I was usually the first person to hear a new bird call.†   (source)
  • One picture showed a scene in which the people of the city greeted her when she arrived—the first person they had ever seen to come from elsewhere.†   (source)
  • But the boy from District 1 was the first person I knew would die because of my actions.†   (source)
  • She was the first person in his life, he once told me, who'd showed any faith in him.†   (source)
  • I bet you anything she warned the first person she met to look around corners with a mirror first!†   (source)
  • "The first person who finds a use for old sneakers," he said, "will be a very rich man."†   (source)
  • I think you're the first person I've ever really gotten through to.†   (source)
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  • "Excuse us," we asked the first person we saw at the dock.†   (source)
  • He was the first person in my family to have a "career."†   (source)
  • Aron is not the first person to die here and will not be the last.†   (source)
  • And he just happens to be the first person to survive a night out in the Maze.†   (source)
  • But when Wes and Tony entered his aunt's house, Wes's father was the first person they saw.†   (source)
  • The first person to find my Easter egg will inherit my entire fortune.†   (source)
  • Morn said Mrs. V was the very first visitor when I first came home from the hospital, the first person to just pick me up like any other baby.†   (source)
  • I am your first person, Edward.†   (source)
  • But you're not the first person to make that promise, you know.†   (source)
  • I realized that if I lost, I'd be the first person to officially get time one-on-one with the prince.†   (source)
  • Walter was not the first person to be released from death row after being proved innocent.†   (source)
  • You're the first person I've seen tonight."†   (source)
  • Shauna is the first person to get in the sling.†   (source)
  • I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you.†   (source)
  • It's just—you're the first person I've met who wasn't a Baron."†   (source)
  • But the first person George saw as they walked down the gangplank was Papa.†   (source)
  • The Keeper handed the feather to the first person seated on her left side.†   (source)
  • And then I said, "I'm the first person to do an A level from my school because it's a special school."†   (source)
  • I've never seen him in Jim's house, and yet he was the first person Jim called."†   (source)
  • She says she wants to be the first person in the store.†   (source)
  • The first person called to the stand was my father.†   (source)
  • I grab the first person I see—a young doctor standing close to the door.†   (source)
  • Owen Meany was the first person I ever saw "drop out."†   (source)
  • He said he was trying to get Miss Maudie's goat, that he had been trying unsuccessfully for forty years, that he was the last person in the world Miss Maudie would think about marrying but the first person she thought about teasing, and the best defense to her was spirited offense, all of which we understood clearly.†   (source)
  • She was the first person to make me feel at home here.†   (source)
  • As for the first person to actually stop and talk with Maniac, that would be Amanda Beale.†   (source)
  • The first person to move was Arthur Bauer.†   (source)
  • I'm only sixteen, and this was the first person I'd shot point-blank in the face.†   (source)
  • And now Jairo was the first person Pattie needed to talk to.†   (source)
  • Of course I was the first person he wanted to see.†   (source)
  • Crake wasn't the first person who'd ever said that to Jimmy.†   (source)
  • I'm the first person to be alone on an entire planet.†   (source)
  • He was the first person other than Bugs that I'd ever let touch the rocks that my momma had give to me.†   (source)
  • " When I arrive at the Hsus' house, where the Joy Luck Club is meeting tonight, the first person I see is my father.†   (source)
  • The way it happened in algebra class or English when my sister was the first person to figure out the sum of x or point out the double entendres to her peers.†   (source)
  • I know I'm not the first person to lose someone they love and I most certainly won't be the last.†   (source)
  • But I seemed to be the first person to walk on these unnamed dirt streets in years.†   (source)
  • It's just …. you're the first person who's known any of that.†   (source)
  • Because you were the first person I ever kissed.†   (source)
  • I told him that if he finds anything, anything at all, you have to be the first person to get it.†   (source)
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