I scored ten out of ten, but I'd done some swotting.

Some of the girls were swotting up hard, feeling rather girllty because they hadn't paid as much attention to their work as they ought to have done.

There are always some students who try to succeed without too much swotting - whether by smuggling mobile phones and crib sheets into the exam room, or simply by peeking at someone else's answers.

In between swotting up on the hierarchy of the afterlife (the paradise of the gods, the realms of the demi-gods, men, animals, hungry ghosts and hell beings) I glance up at the passing snowy-haired gentlemen in crisp linen blazers talking of cricket, and they're starting to freak me out.

"They're not going to like swotting up all that Polish stuff, are they?"

I enjoy what was called swotting in my day.

Diana thought pityingly of her friends, swotting away at school.

As it happens, thanks to my intense cultural swotting up recently, I've got just the thing we need right here."

He spent most of the solitary journey frantically swotting up on weather.

But as the examination time approaches, they have to explode into a frenzy of "swotting" activity.

Everyone was swotting hard for the exam as usual, their heads bent over their books.

Tons of brains and always swotting at things.

'I know, sweets - once you start swotting there's no end to it.

"I really don't think I need bother about swotting up for the exam.

I've had to do a lot of swotting.'

I try to be able to speak to each of the Trustees in his native language; I'm used to swotting up a new one quickly."

With her tiny radio providing background music, she had been sitting at a dressing table that doubled as a desk, swotting for an exam.

Teachers spend their breaks preparing lesson plans, and their evenings swotting up on jargon.

He's been swotting for weeks.

"What are you swotting now?

There had to be time for swotting, even if swotting of the hammock-based kind.

She had spent most of the morning swotting up on datawork for the meeting, and that was with nodes augmenting her brain.

LHX lacks instant appeal and involves swotting up on the options available.

Faithful to his intention of swotting astrogation as hard as possible, Matt had brought some typical problems along.

This in turn means swotting up on the subject, going on fact-finding missions and meeting politicians and organisers.

'Then do me a favour, George, and send me a copy of the text-book he's been swotting from, will you?

'For many reasons, no great favourite... despite Dorothy's swotting up of bell-ringing and the two good maps.

BRAINY kids should start swotting for university degrees while still at school, Britain's top heads demanded yesterday.

I had been looking forward to swotting up my parts for you-but I hope I'm generous enough to give them up to others without a fuss!"

Where will she find 30 minutes in her crammed day?

Whole families were crammed into the same space as I had myself.

You crammed years of education into the last six months.

Probably no two people ever crammed more into three minutes.

And you also see a lot of people crammed together in a shot.

Three more people were crammed in the back, along with some small children.

There was just so much to be crammed into each short day.

The rest of it was crammed into the old house.

The department was already crammed into a space half the size they needed.

There are people crammed into every bit of floor space.

She did not look up until the last article was crammed in.

Right at the moment, this family room was crammed with people.

So much seemed to have been crammed into that one hour.

Nearly 3,200 students are crammed into a building designed for 1,800.

The women had been crammed together like animals, she thought.

The town council was crammed around one end of their long table.

However, he's crammed in too much information, making it difficult to read.

It stopped three times on the way down and two more people crammed themselves in.

She crammed the rest of it back into her bag.

When she arrived, there were other students crammed in the living room.

Too many things had gotten crammed up in his mind.

They were crammed in the back end of the plane.

A lot of meaning was crammed into that one word.

Trying to cram a computer into a small space makes the problem all the more difficult.

I have felt no need to try to cram the past into it as well.