As he reached the brow of the hill, Ramshaw said he had just gone into fourth gear but was not driving fast.

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Sure enough, after several minutes, hundreds of sheep appear over the brow of the hill and obediently make their way into the pen.

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He had been trying to overtake a friend's vehicle on the brow of a hill when he smashed head-on into a Toyota Celica travelling in the other direction.

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Every now and then, the landscape is punctuated by a tiny village like Sant Mateu, set amongst the olive groves and consisting of little more than a whitewashed church on the brow of a hill.

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