sweep the board

Last season, they swept the board with all four leading places.

Therefore there must be a way to sweep the board clean.

I really hope you sweep the board at awards season!

Something of great value to society would be lost if the auction houses were to sweep the board.

In a fit of annoyance I swept the board and gave him the game.

With each pulse, ripples of change had swept the board.

There was much debate about the ethics of one school 'sweeping the board' in such a manner.

"If it isn't, they had better bone up fast, because I plan to sweep the board clean by this time tomorrow."

The big story from the elections is that the religious, Islamist parties have swept the board.

If we pull this one off, we'll sweep the board!"

Sarah, as if sensing somehow that the game was over, suddenly swept the board clean.

By this standard, Giuliani seems to have pretty much swept the board with his quality-of-life campaign.

This way and that went the game, till she lost, and he swept the board.

If the reformists emerge as the largest group, they will sweep the board.

Had to wait a few more years for official recognition, when she swept the boards at school competitions.

Then, carried away by her imagination, she swept the board off the table and scattered the chess pieces over the floor.

Will The Artist sweep the board, as it deservedly should?

Rugged and strong, he would literally sweep the boards.

Smith and the RF swept the board in three more general elections during the 1970s.

He moved across his computer, arms sweeping the board as he tapped into the fabulous memory system.

He's wasting his time being a criminal, he'd sweep the board at the Olympic weight-lifting.

I'm offering you a chance to sweep the board clean, forget the lies and tell me the truth once and for all.

So much so that, when the various category prizes were announced, he all but swept the board.

In the 1958 local elections anti-fluoridation candidates swept the board, turning out many established members, and the idea was dropped.

The Liberal party swept the board by winning every seat in every constituency.