Sentence examples for had been swept from inspiring English sources

A car had been swept up in a flash flood.

Clara, meanwhile, had been swept onto the dance floor.

The team had been swept in Florida in four games.

He had been swept six and a half miles downstream.

A police spokesman said that she had been swept away.

Entire hillsides that had been packed with slums had been swept bare.

Chunks of wood had been swept inland and deposited on city streets.

By April 11 the British had been swept out of Cyrenaica and over the Egyptian frontier.

New Zealand and West Indies had been swept aside the previous summer by Vaughan's new broom.

A thousand years of Jewish civilisation in central and eastern Europe had been swept away.

The Tigers had been swept in a doubleheader on Sunday by Minnesota.