Example sentences of "[be] one [prep] [art] few people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , I must be one of the few people to get Cloughies autograph at a training session while he was Leed 's manager . |
| 2 | You must be one of the few people |
| 3 | I 'm one of the few people who can really claim to have gone with Noakes . ’ |
| 4 | After all , he reflected , I am one of the few people in the world who is n't worth blackmailing . |
| 5 | At any rate , I can say that I am one of the few people who saw T. S. Eliot with his trousers down . |
| 6 | Teresa Darrell is a most unhappy creature who lost her young husband shortly after their honeymoon , and I am one of the few people left who can remember and mourn him . ’ |
| 7 | Jahanbini had been one of the few people to have known for almost a month that they were going to leave Iran . |
| 8 | And because he was slightly dim , or at least vulnerable and kind and easily led , being one of the few people I could mock and dominate with impunity , we became mates . |
| 9 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |
| 10 | Sylvia is one of the few people who has learnt to interpret Elaine 's noises . |
| 11 | Bill Rathje , a professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona , is one of the few people who has burrowed into America 's landfills and weighed and measured their contents — a treatment usually reserved for the dustbins of rock stars . |
| 12 | Ken is one of the few people who can stun me into being ungrammatical . |
| 13 | He is indeed an international figure and is respected so and he 's one of the few people to have actually addressed the Security Council on the question of apartheid and has indeed spoken at many United Nations conventions on the question of apartheid . |
| 14 | He 's one of the few people alive today who knew Elgar personally . |
| 15 | Having known the Royal Family all her life , she was easy to talk to , and was one of the few people who knew what Diana was talking about when she spoke about her day-to-day life . |
| 16 | Hamad Hasan al-Harash , for example , was a senior official in the Agriculture Department in Kufra ( Zawiya ) , had two well-established irrigated gardens worked by Egyptian labourers in 1975–9 , and was one of the few people who supplied fruit and vegetables to the Kufra market on a regular basis . |
| 17 | She was one of the few people in the world who genuinely found Henry funny . |
| 18 | I was one of the few people who understood him . ’ |
| 19 | The head was away and that was dreadful because he was one of the few people that knew what was going on because the community adviser told him that home/school links was an area that we should think about ; that is the school . |
| 20 | As Wayne Gossage has said : " Patricia Knapp was one of the few people in the inner circle of the library-college vanguard who was in any way critical " ( Gossage 1975 : 8 ) and this has been a sad weakness in a movement which , with its enthusiasm and provocative reversal of traditional priorities , has aroused much interest and thought amongst educators , librarians and administrators . |
| 21 | She was one of the few people who had no fear of him , even her Chief Constable would be shocked if he heard the way she argued with him sometimes . |
| 22 | In the last years she was one of the few people to visit her in her room . |
| 23 | And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her . |
| 24 | She was one of the few people in Iran who dared speak her mind to him ( perhaps the sole person ) , but what was on her mind was not to everyone 's liking . |
| 25 | She was one of the few people who rose early in the morning to greet him on his release from prison in 1897 . |
| 26 | Cos I had studied the chart to k know something about er and I I presume I was one of the few people in New York , who knew the damn thing was on 's Island you see . |
| 27 | For a few seconds that stony-visaged politician looked kindly and I realised that , apart from his mistress , Benjamin was one of the few people Wolsey really loved . |
| 28 | Zaria was one of the few people who could control her when she had the moods . ’ |
| 29 | He was trained at the École Nationale d'Administration , which is the national administration training school , and in fact at the École Polytechnique as well , which is , so he was one of the few people who went through both the elite training establishments , and he served as a civil servant for a while before turning to political life and getting elected as a Member of Parliament . |