Example sentences of "[art] few people [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
2 | She subscribed on the face of it to the proposition that we are not put here to be happy , although she was the first to complain if she , or the few people she loved , were not . |
3 | I was one of the few people who understood him . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | . And er we were truthful , we tried to put our side of the argument , you know there were the few people who said , well I do n't really care , and drove in . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | At any rate , I can say that I am one of the few people who saw T. S. Eliot with his trousers down . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Afterwards Martha provided ham and a salad with hard-boiled eggs like gleaming bald heads sticking out from limp lettuce leaves for the few people who turned up . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | She was one of the few people who rose early in the morning to greet him on his release from prison in 1897 . |
12 | She knew he would be friendless , that , beyond the house , the few people who worked in it and herself , there was no one . |
13 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
14 | People came and surrounded her and Erica , and I drifted away from them and around , seeing a few people I knew by sight and hundreds I did n't . |
15 | However a few people who tested antibody negative have gone on to develop AIDS , and some scientists now believe that — extremely rarely — someone with HIV may never produce antibodies . |
16 | As it was only eleven thirty in the morning there were quite a few people who thought that it would be fun to go out and play in the floods and others who were just lending a hand to those in difficulty . |
17 | There were a few people who had private laboratories , and who were like Lavoisier amateurs of fully professional competence ; and there were those who lived by consultancy . |
18 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
19 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
20 | They were among a few people who came back to see over the property again quite a few times , and I met their sons . |
21 | Right now there were quite there were a few people who gave me their books There were a few people who who gave me their books but I mean Erm this was the first homework I 'd given you actually that er that I 'd you know given so I would like to see an improvement in this performance please . |
22 | He said : ‘ We have very good arguments to prove that we can not be held responsible for the actions of a few people who did not know what they were doing . |
23 | Several crutches , though , and quite a few people who did n't apparently have anything wrong with them , helpers or nurses , he supposed . |
24 | There were a few people who allowed themselves to feel the pain of loss , the pain of betrayal , when they began to understand what had really been happening in the Soviet Union . |