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Over the barriers jumped the team to effect a rescue, when another bull, something of a tail - end Charlie, mopped up the lot of them.

But, alas, by the time George has thought all this, the ants are already dead and mopped up on a wet cloth and rinsed down the sink.

As Alexander the Great mopped up the Persians, no one would have dreamed that Greek would not be a world language forever.

Cleaned, dusted, mopped , waxed or washed of floors, windows and fixtures within the building grounds of the facility.

The army has mopped up the enemy.

A waiter came with a cloth and picked up the glasses and mopped off the table .

Over time, even chemicals or poisons that are widely diffused in water can become highly concentrated as they're mopped up by nurdles.

On Thursday morning, the Misrata fighters had mopped up areas of town where snipers had been holding out and taken the conference center.

Mopped the hallway ; mopping the spilled water ; mopped her forehead with a towel .

It was snubbed, and the central bank mopped up all the foreign exchange it could find to pay the IMF.

I mopped it up with napkins from the dispenser and tried not to cry.

But I already mopped the floors, dusted the furniture and vacuumed the rugs!

In growing markets, companies can afford to risk over-investing, because excess capacity is eventually mopped up.

Everyday, she collected the laundry, fed the animals, mopped and swept the floor, and brought tea to the others.

The campaign, railway guerrillas mopped up, and found that small, including the roster of Japanese soldier missing 29.

As they have mopped up dollars, using government bonds, they have accumulated reserves.

"Harry, " Mr. Weasley panted. "We hoped you'd only gone one grate too far. . . . " He mopped his glistening bald patch.

Ordinarily, these monetary injections are mopped up with sales of government bonds and bills.

This afternoon the New York Giants mopped the floor with the Washington Redskins.

The nurse gently mopped the blood from the wound with a soft cloth.

533, Don't bounce the ball inside the house, I just mopped the floor.

They tried everything; cleaned and mopped and aired the place out.

Wilson mopped his face and breathed deeply of the air outside the hole.

The swimming team mopped up eight of the sixteen gold medals.

She mopped up the pools of water on the bathroom floor.

Some cleaned the blackboards, others mopped the floor.

Some washed and sewed, others mopped the floor and cleaned the windows.

When excess liquidity is mopped up, Chinese stocks will fall.

Some cleaned the windows , others mopped the floor .

We need it so that global problems are not just mopped up after the fact, but anticipated.

Tyrion mopped at his face with a sleeve.

The nurse gently mopped the preserve from the wound.

The nurse gently mopped the blood from the wound.

From 1998 to 2003, although surface temperatures were not rising, a lot of energy was mopped up by the oceans (see chart 2).

He mopped the floor and then waxed it.

A worker mopped the floor this morning.

He mopped up 18 of the 20 first prize awards.

I swept the floor, mopped the floor, cleanned the blackboard and so on.