Example sentences of "[adv] the sheep " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seb assured the older man there had been no problems during the night , but added , ‘ I am worried about the stock , especially the sheep in the pen behind the barn . ’ |
| 2 | The department has major research activities in the pathological sciences and has closely co-ordinated research interests in Immunology , Molecular Biology , Virology and Microbiology , both in veterinary species ( especially the sheep , pig , cat and dog ) and as applied to human medicine . |
| 3 | Perhaps the sheep were monitoring the futures market in wool . |
| 4 | Only the men on the tops , only the sheep and goats on the fells , only the bare rocks . |
| 5 | The dogs were set off by it and the dogs set off the sheep and the goats and the cows . |
| 6 | So ideally what the industry needs is an alternative that erm , is really , that kills off the sheep scab bug , and at the same time er , is er , affords protection against other erm , things like er , fly er strike . |
| 7 | ‘ We called Keith ‘ the hunataway ’ , like the dogs that round up the sheep . |
| 8 | The following morning they lit the oil-lamp in the shrine and loaded up the sheep . |
| 9 | Scott the collie has his work cut out as he rounds up the sheep at Camp Farm . |
| 10 | He noticed a broken gate , and felt sure the sheep had gone through it . |
| 11 | Christopher went with him to feed the chickens and let out the sheep which were used as ‘ mowers ’ for the steep lawns . |
| 12 | The third difficulty is that the criteria which a lender uses to differentiate between borrowers he is prepared to accept and borrowers he judges too risky may , as it were , throw out the sheep with the goats . |
| 13 | That 's what sorted out the sheep and the goats . |
| 14 | I never did like sorting out the sheep from the goats … at the end of the first term in the fifth year … did n't like that at all … there was always a sort of … he 's doing ‘ O ’ level , the elite group . |
| 15 | It was n't the sheep , it was that greasy wool that caused the trouble . |
| 16 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 17 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 18 | ‘ You can appreciate , Brother , how the sheep like to gossip about their shepherd . ’ |
| 19 | In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor . |
| 20 | Morse had insisted on travelling by what he called the ‘ scenic ’ route — via Cirencester but , alas , the countryside was not appearing at its best : the golden days were gone , and the close-cropped fields where the sheep ever nibbled looked dank and uninviting under a sky-cover of grey cloud . |
| 21 | That 's where the sheep go when they want to go to bed . |
| 22 | Later in the evening , when the sheep and cows were in , and the family was sitting round the fire , Śa kar told them the whole story of what had happened . |
| 23 | I remember when the sheep were quite happy nibbling grass and left me alone to munch my sandwiches . |
| 24 | Hosts : Cattle , sheep and goats Site : Abomasum Species : Haemonchus contortus H. placei H. similis Until recently the sheep species was called H. contortus and the cattle species H. placei . |