Example sentences of "had swept over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The icy seas had swept over her decks , and men had had to work night and day with axes to keep her afloat . |
| 2 | The great flood tides of spring 1402 had swept over the low lying marshes of the estuary and forced a passage to join the Broad with the sea . |
| 3 | He was trying to exorcise the wave of desire which had swept over him when McAllister 's blue-black eyes were fixed so earnestly on him . |
| 4 | As she watched him leave , without so much as a glance in her direction , such a feeling of desolation had swept over Isabel that she had almost cried out . |
| 5 | At Thurso , the long beach had disappeared into the sea , and the tide had swept over the grassland behind it , taking twenty drekar and pinnaces with it . |
| 6 | The initial alarm that had swept over her in the apartment had now settled down into a tight knot of almost sick apprehension , which lay like heavy lead deep in her stomach . |