Example sentences of "a sheep " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take , for example , this record of a personal response to Picasso 's sculpture The Man with a Sheep by the critic Tim Hilton in the catalogue for ‘ Picasso 's Picassos , in 1981 : |
| 2 | The Man with a Sheep is said to be humanitarian ; that is far from one 's experience in front of it , and the assertion is not much supported by the iconographical evidence . |
| 3 | i wonder … what was I trying to prove ? just that I was not a sheep , waiting to be slaughtered , at their command . |
| 4 | As to honest Partridge , he meant no wrong , for he is so bold a mountaineer , he can go anywhere that a sheep can ; and I dare say thinks every person can do the same . ’ |
| 5 | The Princess Royal attends a lunch at the Enmore Hotel , Kirn , Dunoon , Argyllshire ; as President , Riding for the Disabled Association , attends a Show given by the Dunoon and Cowal branch of the Association at Dunoon ; attends a sheep show at the European Sheep and Wool Centre , Lochgoilhead , Argyllshire ; and opens the Drimsynie Holiday Village . |
| 6 | The quiet but bitter resignation of the vast majority was expressed to Yakovlev by one of them in this way : ‘ A peasant is a sheep , and whoever wants his wool fleeces him . |
| 7 | At the age of 16 he travelled through the Far East and went to Australia to work on a sheep station . |
| 8 | I tried to cheer him up with memories of the last time his ankle was hurting , when we slept in a sheep herder 's cave — lined with graffiti that was centuries old — on the way from Landmannalaugar to the coast near Vik . |
| 9 | Three years ago John Small , a sheep farmer in the Mendip Hills , read an editorial in his local newspaper which claimed that foxes never killed lambs . |
| 10 | It is made from the liver , lungs and heart of a sheep with the addition of oatmeal and spices , all of which is packed into the sheep 's stomach . |
| 11 | Production of Roquefort is strictly controlled and the cheeses are stamped in red with a picture of a sheep to show that they are genuine , made with milk from Larzac sheep and matured in caves in Combalou . |
| 12 | A sheep in wolf 's clothing . |
| 13 | In fact — he wants to leave school after O-levels. £6,000 a year down the drain ! ’ rather a loud voice ) ‘ If he wants to be a sheep farmer in Australia ? |
| 14 | The shepherds run : one brings a basket , one a sheep |
| 15 | He 's like a sheep . |
| 16 | Modern version of a sheep ‘ drove ’ along the A40 at West Wycombe , Bucks . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course we are trying to recruit new people to Flockplan , but we are doing so in the knowledge that having a detailed analysis of flock performance and an independent adviser standing at his shoulder , can help a sheep producer improve efficiency and profit enough to recoup the cost many times over . ’ |
| 18 | People sometimes put other companion animals with a horse for company , like a sheep or cow . |
| 19 | Together they worked hard on a sheep station . |
| 20 | But he had made the gesture : these were people for whom you could safely slaughter a sheep . |
| 21 | Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals : members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests ; if the dead person was a well known and respected man , the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors ( who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar ) . |
| 22 | And I bet she 's got a face like the back end of a sheep . ’ |
| 23 | The footpath on the left bank of the burn was little better than a sheep track , but there were clues to its former importance as a droving road over the hills to Byrness in Redesdale . |
| 24 | ‘ As a youngster he was sent out to Australia to work as a jackaroo on a sheep station . |
| 25 | A valuable export market for sheep and sheep meat to Europe from the United Kingdom has developed , even though a sheep meat agreement has not yet been concluded . |
| 26 | He prepares to do so , and only when it is clear that he will obey the divine command does God at the last moment spare his son and tell him to kill a sheep instead . |
| 27 | She next came upon the mud-covered carcass of a sheep , and another of a Friesian cow . |
| 28 | Mussolini harangued his people long and often , peppering his speeches with slogans like ‘ it is better to be a lion for a year than a sheep for a hundred years ’ . |
| 29 | Q. What noise does a sheep make ? |
| 30 | The local Senussi tribesmen were bitterly anti-Italian and provided a sheep to roast as a gesture of welcome . |