Example sentences of "[noun sg] swept over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fear swept over her so completely now , that to think straight , to answer , even if she had been completely sober , would have been an impossibility . |
| 2 | Piers turned around to face her , and for a split second his glance swept over her with appreciation , but the moment was gone so quickly that she thought she must have imagined it . |
| 3 | Her protest died on her lips as his arms brushed across her breasts , and a fierce feeling of confusion swept over her . |
| 4 | His gaze swept over her from head to foot . |
| 5 | As Hrun 's gaze swept over her his mind began to operate two notional counting machines . |
| 6 | His derisory gaze swept over her , and then over Neil , who , at the jeering note in Havvie 's voice , and the addressing of McAllister by her correct Christian name , had suddenly stiffened . |
| 7 | His frowning gaze swept over her and there was a glint in the blue eyes that might have been intimidating if she were n't so angry . |
| 8 | Panic swept over her , squeezing out every other emotion . |
| 9 | A sudden wave of panic swept over her and she glanced at the others but it did n't seem as if she was going to learn anything for the moment . |
| 10 | For some reason which she could not understand a feeling of desolation swept over her . |
| 11 | And then , as they all stood laughing and chattering in the cold wind , the sense of desolation swept over him again . |
| 12 | He took her hand as they walked slowly along the cliff edge , and a feeling of peace and security swept over her . |
| 13 | A feeling of total joy swept over him as he inspected the beautiful gold and silver machine . |
| 14 | A sudden chill swept over Sophie , but she said evenly , ‘ I do n't know what he 's done to you . |
| 15 | A wave of hot colour swept over her as she wriggled to somehow attach the bedspread around her without letting it slip and giving this mocking character another full frontal . |
| 16 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |
| 17 | She was not sick in the mornings and when occasionally nausea swept over her it was easily put down to fatigue , or to something she had eaten . |
| 18 | A wave of nausea swept over her , then she fainted . |
| 19 | Lying there she was aware for the first time that night of Maggie above her and Rachel below her ; both , she imagined , sleeping sweetly , and again the grinding weight of compassion and guilt swept over her . |
| 20 | Guilt swept over Constance but she felt like saying ‘ nor for me ’ , as Louise went on , ‘ Just for me , darling , say you 're sorry to your mother and then I 'll sort something out . |
| 21 | At the same time , a swell of pride swept over George . |
| 22 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 23 | The first wave of Manichaeism swept over the Levant and Asia Minor in the third and fourth centuries — Bogomilism was the first manifestation of a neo-Manichaean movement which penetrated into southern and western Europe between the ninth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 24 | Sadness swept over her . |
| 25 | As he spoke his foul breath swept over Farrell in a noxious cloud . |
| 26 | An irrational anger swept over Rose , so that , although she had planned his favourite food and was anxious for him to enjoy it , she now wanted to strike the fork from his lips . |
| 27 | The cold sweet smell of the British countryside swept over the poet . |
| 28 | A wave of sympathy swept over him , some of which must have shown on his face , for Connon now smiled at him ironically . |
| 29 | From the moment the tapes rose Crisp was in the front rank , and by the time the field swept over Becher 's Brook — the sixth fence — he was sharing the lead with Grey Sombrero . |
| 30 | When the Bastille fell in 1789 a wave of euphoria swept over Europe ; William Blake , blending together millennial hopes and biblical imagery , demonstrates the emotional release provided by the success of two revolutions accomplished overseas and the hope of a third to follow in England itself : |