1. There was a woman mopping the stairs.

2. She carried on mopping the floor.

3. Government forces are mopping up the last pockets of resistance.

4. There are a few things that need mopping up before I can leave.

5. One was mopping the floor, another dispensing pills.

6. She sat on the bed, mopping his brow.

7. Fire crews were mopping up early Tuesday.

8. Trixie was mopping Steve's breakfast off the Catalac's deck.

9. Georgiades came back mopping his face.

10. They are mopping up in a southerly direction.

11. Eventually she pulled away a little, mopping her cheeks with her wrist.

12. Mopping up extra 124% Liz Dolan DOOR-to-door brooms and buckets seller Betterware is cleaning up in the recession.

13. Staff were mopping up today as Mr Alton held his usual surgery.

14. A second equally good story describes mopping up an oil spill at sea.

15. For every mopping - up operation that gets into the headlines, how many go unreported?

16. She stood up, mopping her brow with the back of a skeleton wrist.

17. The market will have difficulty in mopping this all up.

18. Roy stops mopping her face with a towel and looks up at Jody.

19. Unfortunately, the weapon mopping up after the Cold War is very lethal, costs a few hundred bucks and is everywhere.

20. She's not mopping the floor.

21. People die everyday, mopping floors, washing dishes.

22. The maid is mopping the floor.

23. They are still mopping tile.

24. As dawn succeeded darkness, mopping up continued.

25. It was such a hot day that he had to keep mopping his forehead with handkerchief.

26. She came home from work in the hospital pharmacy to find him doing the laundry or mopping the floor.

27. Serve on squares of bread, or with bread for mopping it up yourself.

27. try its best to collect and make good sentences.

28. With the wringer and mop they make up a mopping system.

29. Barnabas sat down at once and gazed at him, mopping the garage floor with his tail.

30. Duncan was coming closer with the brush and a big bucket, emptying ashtrays and mopping things.

31. Who is that sad sack mopping in the corner?

32. He gave it a good mopping.

33. The new product mopping up on the international market.

34. A number of them took to mopping all day long.

35. Some are cleaning the windows, others are mopping the floor.

36. But its mopping up of red - shirt resistance was a fairly professional job.

37. Thank heaven she didn't recognize me. "muttered Father, mopping his face with a hankerchief. "...She was a loverly young thing, very graceful.

38. The way of public management of sexuality perhaps will shift from mopping up to regulation.

39. But mopping mapping the genome is only the first step.

40. She went stealthily, mopping her flushed , stained cheeks, frightened, angry, very miserable.

41. As a cleaning woman, her routine daties include cleaning the desks and mopping the floor.

42. The policemen have been busy mopping up a crowd of drug smugglers.

43. What is the way out? I bought an accum home, and decreased the frequency of mopping floor by water.

44. From then on the operations were of a mopping - up variety .

45. The famine was licked and the Japanese mopping - up campaigns had slowed down.

46. The cess was aimed at mopping up funds for tobacco farmers'rehabilitation.

47. She would not cry over split milk , but quickly set about mopping it up.

48. Is it, as the good-hearted liberal reformist suggests, that we have simply not got around to mopping up these pockets of human misery, but shall do so in the fullness of time?

49. Sri Lankan troops were today mopping up the remnants of the defeated Tamil Tigers, amid reports that some rebel fighters have been blowing themselves up rather than surrender.

50. Another clip calls the South Korean foreign minister a "pro-American flunky" who should make his living by "mopping the floors of the Pentagon."

51. Ernie is mopping the floor. He glances back and sees Warden Norton approach the cellblock with an entourage of a DOZEN GUARDS.