The American gentleman had secured it all and left us the sweepings.

I suspect that they use real tobacco in them, instead of the bridge sweepings I'm used to.

There must once have been good stuff worth a million times as much as those sweepings.

But I think we can still get sweepings if we ask nicely.

Your own life won't be worth a pile of stable sweepings then.

I can take care of myself, and most of these floor sweepings too!"

Even the sweepings of a derelict auction house would have been better displayed.

"Most of them were found among the sweepings of the floor this morning.

He scoops the sweepings into two envelopes and hands them to the Inspector.

He paid the in-house barbers at the big law firms to give him their sweepings.

My mother said the tasty whips were made from sweetened floor sweepings.

So we're the sweepings of the four planets.

"You're too nice, Cordelia: she looked at us as though we were road sweepings.

I asked Marino to get sweepings to you and he said he would."

Sweepings of dust and coffee grounds, occasionally some broken crockery.

Similarly, a fully swept matrix is the result of partial sweepings on all variables.

The lake has been swept clean of snow by the wind, the sweepings making a huge bank on our side that we have to negotiate.

Women like me do not allow themselves to be defiled by the sweepings of the gutter."

However, forward and reverse sweepings are opposite operations.

The crew is a mixed bag from a dozen other ships and the sweepings of regional headquarters.

Mail public hair or go to a barber shop and collect sweepings of hair.

Ill at ease, he glanced down at the pile of sweepings.

These were the veritable sweepings of the battlefield.

(The plants out back may well be enjoying the ancient stable sweepings.)

Our work here is not to aid the degenerate sweepings, but to maintain the standard for our own people.

Some, though by no means all, say sweeping changes are needed.

And the government's power to do so will be sweeping.

And sweeping changes are under way within the school system itself.

Finally, I have come to the third point, which may well be the most sweeping in my report.

In other areas of education, there will be more sweeping changes.

As a matter of fact, I think this floor needs sweeping.

There was a light sweeping left and right across the water.

However, many would probably feel that these rights are actually quite sweeping.

"This is much more sweeping than what any other state has come up with."

That thought was like the sweeping of a dead hand across his face.

He made a sweeping movement with his hand, as if what she'd said was of no interest.

His plans for the force are both simple and sweeping.

In fact, there is nothing little about this sweeping work.

More than an hour later, they were still sweeping glass out of their building.

What am I talking about with such a sweeping statement?

She went off sweeping but came back in a minute.

But the sweeping changes paid off in many other ways.

Sweeping changes had been made in the organization before the season.

In the last ten years the changes have been even more sweeping.

I stood in the dark, with the cold sweeping past me.

Now, the system is making its most sweeping changes in decades.

She managed to turn, getting a sweeping view of the city.

Instead, work from the center and use a sweeping motion.

I had sweeping views of the park to the North.

Police held responsibility over many systems in society, even street sweeping.

When the police swept one group away, another took its place.

Find someone who has swept a floor in the past week.

He got his back to the wall as they swept over him.

The words swept through her head and made no sense.

And the other night, why, you just about swept me off my feet.

One last time he swept the ground with his hand.

I wanted to be swept along like the rest of them.

He moved in, his eyes sweeping over all three of us.

I swept over them about two feet above the ground.

"Everything has been swept up in the idea of time running out."

On the next play, he swept right end for 15 more.

And the guy sweeping the right side of the road was no more.

The things of the world will all be swept away.

But then the car swept past them, and they were alone again.

Just like the people swept over me side last night.

I had never actually been swept off my feet before.

I felt my feet had been swept from under me.

And she swept him off his feet as though he were a child.

He did not turn his head, but swept out the door.

He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

The door was open, cold air sweeping into the room.

She turned to look down at him, sweeping back her hair.

Within minutes he had the past swept from her mind.

With his other hand, he swept her hair out of the way.

She swept past me before I had time to answer.

Just the experience of a sweep would be something for us.

But the first thing he did was have me sweep the floor.

But he asked nothing until I turned to give a last sweep behind.

In their place was a sweep of dark on either side.

Running a hand through the sweep of his hair, he looked around him.

All she had left to do was sweep the floor.

He looked again at the sweep second hand on his watch.

He turned her in time with the sweep of music.

I came back the next week and he had me sweep the floor again.

His sweep of a hand took in the entire room.

He'll make the sweep himself, just to keep his hand in.

In all, they spent some 50 hours at the sweeps.

I just kind of sweep at him with it and he goes.

So what does her family plan to do for life after the sweeps?

The sweeps will continue for at least the next few months, the police said.

And on some levels, the most recent sweep looked a lot like the first two.

He had a chance to make it a sweep and a good day for us.

And now all they had to do was wait for the sweep to go by.

What if they gave a sweep month and nobody came?

Yeah, if we give this a sweep out and that.

It's me they talk to first when there's going to be an office sweep.

And he loved the sweep of the land to the water.

The future is one of the major reasons the sweep today was so important.

If they are, check the next sweep line on the other side.