sweep up

I was just recalling how, about a year ago, my country was swept up in a spasm of self-congratulation.

"Coming back to America from another country, I hadn't been swept up in all this dotcom stuff, " he says.

English aristocrat goes to Australia to sell an inherited property, only to get swept up in adventure, romance and a new life.

Small firms not swept up in the various deals would be able to auction manuscripts .

As Hurricane Irene swept up the East Coast of the U. S. , there was a surge of envy rising deep in the heart of Texas.

But I was annoyed by her bad temper, and I wanted be somewhere else, at the pool, away with my classmates, swept up in the exuberance.

He had been swept up by an army that fought at the front and taught in the rear.

His whole world view began in a rock pool and swept up to a study of the stars.

Suddenly, hundreds of thousands of Israelis found themselves swept up in a fellowship of frustration.

It has only begrudgingly been swept up in the current popular demand, and it is only doing now what it should have done many seasons ago.

He was swept up into the center of them and my link with him was broken as I was carried up to the top of a high building nearby.

When it becomes swept up in a strong emotion it seems to lose itself.

Over the next 100 million years, the planets swept up some of these planetesimals and deflected the rest into the sun.

The wind swept up the sand into a mound .

The clock struck six and, having swept up the hearth, Beth put a pair of slippers down to warm.

That's when entities like Koryo, that are not propagandists or advocates for the North's political system, get swept up in the clampdown.

After a decade in Washington, Mr. Bernanke doesn't seem to have been swept up by the nation's capital.

Finally, just in time, the long wings swept up. The plane leaped into the air.

It's not to be ignored: on September 24th an honour-roll student was beaten to death near Fenger, swept up in senseless violence.

Each time, investors were swept up with enthusiasm, and the boom ended up in an inevitable bust.

In the book, Francesca is not an especially strong character -- things happen around her and shes swept up in the current.

Since the dawn of the internet, all of us in business have been swept up by the Niagara of information that fills our daily life.

The doctor bent and swept up a pair of beakers from a rack on the floor.

What follows is a partial list of Chinese activists swept up in the ongoing crackdown.

Even their small errors hardly mattered, swept up in the roar of the crowd.

He talked about the need to balance the moral obligation to champion freedom while not getting swept up in self-destructive fervor.

I was swept up in the magic of the moment.

In a touching moment, a baby bear gets swept up in a big cuddle - by her affectionate father (see photo).

were swept up into the air by the wind.

Many survivors fled the approaching tsunami on foot, leaving vehicles to be swept up by the sea.

There's five fathoms out there, he said. It'll be swept up that way when the tide comes in about one.

AS happened with so many theater actors, he wAS swept up in the vortex of Hollywood.

And now there's the remains of a plate in a sad pile of swept-up pot fragments , ready for the trash.

Like foxes and hares or monarchs and milkweed, sorters and tests got swept up by a textbook case of coevolution.

I very rarely get swept up in a movie anymore.

In the 14 months since the war ended, Hamas has swept up much of the wreckage.

Eliminate stocks swept up in major market moves.

The New Zealand dollar has been swept up in the rising tide of global optimism.

When the sea roared inland, it swept up thousands of cars. And when the wave retreated, it cast them off like so many crushed beer cans.

The whole country was swept up in the excitement.

One of them drank some coke and broke the bottle. The glass wasn't swept up, and the stain ruined the rug.

Yet the banks are mostly well capitalised and have not been swept up by the same negative sentiment as their eurozone counterparts.

Osborne got swept up into the Tory leadership contest, as a supporter of William Hague.

A planet is thus a body that has swept up or scattered away most of the mass from its orbital zone.

This space creates a blank, a space wherein, perhaps, the spectator's imaginary can be swept up.

Toppled cement mixers could be seen amid the rubble as workers swept up the debris from the explosions at one building site .

I heard her muttering as she swept up some crack vials.

Gl kinsman, who is temporarily living in Israel, got swept up in a policy change that made his Facebook profile more widely available.

Put down the backpack, seated promenade, in front of seven or eight pomegranate tree to the empty world side swept up.

But he had gone. He had completed his work and swept up the wood shavings, and altogether left everything neat.

The fallen leaves were swept up into the air by strong north wind.

The governor's signature rimless glasses and swept up hairstyle wigs are sold separately.

They were swept up by the events; don't drag me into this business.

If oil gets swept up by the Loop Current, the crude should take about ten more days to hit the Florida Keys, Roffer said.

Stand by for the most extraordinary chain of events ever swept up into high adventure.

She swept up all the dust and dirt she could find in the whole mansion.

Since then, rural areasacrossthe region have been swept up intheethanol craze, with new facilities sproutingall over corn country(see map).

e. g. He swept up the baby up into his arms.

It is to America's shame that our nation swept up so many innocent people in its hunt for terrorists.

After all the guests had left, I swept up.

The country was swept up with the Cultural Revolution and Maoism 50 years ago.

Old magnetic fields swept up then should re-appear as big sunspots in 2010-2011.

Sanitation workers said the green algae has appeared for days and they have swept up 2 truckloads of algae every day.

Swept up in their embrace

If you are only after half an hour, there is a kind of swept up from the feeling;