Peter Riddell:It's time to give the allowances system a spring-clean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG:] Reference

Oh, it was safe enough, even at the spring-clean, or when we had to paper again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rose cottage]

I was helping her mentioned above spring-clean one time and I discovered a - how can I put this - mr exitement?.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Sleeping apart has in no way ruined our sex life — if anything, it has made it better."] Reference

It was proposed that the services begin at Advent (November 28 until just after Christmas) and be linked to a township spring-clean.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Flegg had nagged me to spring-clean, and I'd moaned and whined at the time, but right now I was glad the place looked sparkly fresh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

 Immersed in stripping wallpaper off the walls in the living room, in a bid to spring-clean her life, Sophie cursed beneath her breath when someone rang on the doorbell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mistress On Demand]

Long ordered us all to spring-clean the club from top to bottom, and laid on a banquet, for which he asked me to be his interpreter, which made some of the other students extremely envious.    From Wordnik.com.  [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]

In a few short days the vernal equinox will rear its well-organized head and instead of being made to feel like a compulsive neat freak, I can spring-clean with societal approval and encouragement. digg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karen Leland: Spring Clean Your Closet in Four Easy Steps] Reference

Our first activity was to begin a spring-clean of the village.    From Wordnik.com.  [Videos (RSS 2.0)] Reference

"In my family, it took my grandmother and mother two weeks to spring-clean a home," she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ottaway Online Editors] Reference

"I'm kind of impatient," Nolvak admits, explaining his idea for a 24-hour national spring-clean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

His aim, as I understand it, is to get to the bottom, to spring-clean completely, to arrive, in fact, at the clinical truths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Died in the Wool]

For while it is easy to spring-clean the rest of the route, it is proving difficult to give Parliament Square a pre-royal wedding make-over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

It's as if Wednesday's penalty success in Rome was a mental spring-clean for this side, because yesterday they absolutely ripped Blackburn apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [East Lower] Reference

Families rush to spring-clean their homes, stock up on the finest foods, and prepare themselves mentally for this rich outpouring of family togetherness.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

My thoughts are turning again to the need to grow things and spring-clean and organize and all those things that happen every year around now in my head.    From Wordnik.com.  [...seeking serenity] Reference

Katherine and Mrs. Burton were busier than anyone, for they had the store to spring-clean, and that was a task calling for hard work and careful management.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods] Reference

But v good illustration of something those glossy supplements on how to save more, weigh less, get your act together and spring-clean your fetid psyche rarely tell you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Erin Bried is hoping to teach a generation of women the skills their grandmothers took for granted, such as how to shine your shoes, swaddle a newborn and spring-clean your home.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.appeal-democrat.com - News :] Reference

Based on Katie Leckey's Cleaning Grand Plan, The New Year Grand Plan Challenge kicks off the new year with a 14-week plan to clean and organize a spring-clean house for the New Year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organized Home] Reference

In a few short days the vernal equinox will rear its well-organized head and instead of being made to feel like a compulsive neat freak, I can spring-clean with societal approval and encouragement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

In a few short days the vernal equinox will rear its well-organized head and instead of being made to feel like a compulsive neat freak, I can spring-clean with societal approval and encouragement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Shabangu shouldn't forget, during her spring-clean of the next six months, to give some attention to enforcing environmental compliance within mining, and linking to similar efforts of other departments.    From Wordnik.com.  [IOL: News] Reference

The English language needs periodically to be given a spring-clean, where we scrape off the phrases that have become stuck to the floor and toss out the rotting metaphors that have fallen down the back of the settee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

The team at Blush Beauty in the Third Ward is hosting the Spring Laura Mercier Face-to-Face event, which offers ladies the opportunity to spring-clean their makeup bags and refresh their looks, with complimentary appointments for a lesson and application.    From Wordnik.com.  [JSOnline.com] Reference

Military Intelligence and it is clear that a good spring-clean is over-due. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"Golly, I hope Matron doesn't suddenly take it into her head to spring-clean this cupboard!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twins At St Clare's]

"Well, to be sure!" said the clerk, "it used to hang in the best parlour at Wydcombe over the sideboard; I seed'n there when I was a boy, and my mother was helping spring-clean up at the farm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nebuly Coat] Reference

It can spring-clean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference