Sentence examples for would not be swept from inspiring English sources

Streets would not be swept.

"Werner kept holding on to me so he would not be swept away," he said.

Steadying himself so that he would not be swept off it, he shouted, "Barney!" There was no reply.

When Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, was speaker in 2008, she proposed the bipartisan agency to show allegations would not be swept under the rug.

Lavrov said he had repeatedly raised the allegations with western partners and hoped they would not be swept under the carpet.

The only way to ensure that future wrongdoing would not be swept under the rug, they said, would be to change the university's culture by knocking big-time college football off its perch.

As a kid I had devoured the battered, dog-eared, much-sellotaped family copy of The Lord of the Rings handed down to me by my elder brothers, so why I thought I wouldn't be swept up in the fantasy and imagination of these teeming, magical worlds is beyond me.

So when they found themselves this year in the World Series facing a favored Los Angeles Dodgers, the most expensive squad in baseball, there was nary a reason to believe they wouldn't be swept like they were the one and only other time they'd found themselves playing this late into the season.

Or at least they would, had they not been swept by the Patriots.

But it would not be an isolated sweep.

On November 9, 2005, Fox announced that the show would not be airing in November sweeps, and that they had cut the episode order for the third season from 22 to 13. Fox ended up showing the last four episodes in a two-hour timeslot directly opposite the opening ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics.