Example sentences of "swept through [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE bomb squad and sniffer dogs swept through Welford Road Stadium hours before the South African rugby team 's historic return to England after 23 years . |
| 2 | At the same time , the Germans swept through Greece and Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | Eight years later she was still there , by then paralysed and helpless , as a virulent epidemic of cholera swept through London . |
| 4 | A mixture of fear , at being touched by a man at all — and something else , quite different — swept through Sally-Anne so that she began to tremble as he walked her through to the parlour . |
| 5 | In the summer and autumn of 1348 the Black Death swept through France and southern England , and moved steadily northwards and westwards to reach Scotland and Ireland by the following year . |
| 6 | During the summer of 1943 when wartime industrial production in the USA was nearing its peak , a wave of absenteeism swept through women working in key areas of the US war effort to the extent that the FBI were called in to investigate whether some elaborate form of Axis sabotage was afoot . |
| 7 | It seemed that she was right as the Allies crossed the Rhine and swept through Germany . |
| 8 | When the hot tub craze swept through California in the late 1970s middle-aged Wesley Laroya and his wife Helen were quick to get in on the action . |
| 9 | Singapore fell because the Japanese swept through Malaya from the north , an invasion believed impossible by the British . |
| 10 | By July , the Germans had swept through Belgium , the Netherlands and France , and the Battle of Britain was under way , with the Luftwaffe flying across Kent and East Anglia in an attempt to reach London and other major cities . |
| 11 | The jealousy swept through Mr Trotter 's head as he idolized this person for his looks , popularity , he had got everything just right , whereas he was living in a poky little cottage , with is protective wife and his asthma . |
| 12 | A full-scale evacuation operation swung into action as panic swept through Saturday morning shoppers . |
| 13 | A rush of warmth swept through Theda 's body . |
| 14 | Relief and anger swept through Josh . |
| 15 | Compassion swept through Gina as she responded to the agony of his humiliation , but still she remained silent , sensing his need to continue his confession without interruption . |