noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Old English sheepdog
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
trial
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He had seen a sheepdog trial in Cumbria: amazing creatures.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had seen a sheepdog trial in Cumbria: amazing creatures.
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He had turned from a beer-bellied, ranting bear into a well-groomed, grumbling sheepdog .
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I was returning along a path and, when passing an isolated croft, a man and his sheepdog emerged.
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Lesson: never let an unfriendly sheepdog get behind you.
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Moreover, the most difficult tricks to teach a sheepdog are those most removed from its ancestral hunting skills.
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Surprisingly, relatively few women saw sheepdog work as a useful contribution they could make to the farm.