Example sentences of "[adv prt] the sheep " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dogs were set off by it and the dogs set off the sheep and the goats and the cows . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ We called Keith ‘ the hunataway ’ , like the dogs that round up the sheep . |
| 4 | The following morning they lit the oil-lamp in the shrine and loaded up the sheep . |
| 5 | Scott the collie has his work cut out as he rounds up the sheep at Camp Farm . |
| 6 | Christopher went with him to feed the chickens and let out the sheep which were used as ‘ mowers ’ for the steep lawns . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That 's what sorted out the sheep and the goats . |
| 9 | 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 . |