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bumped

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Past of bump

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They bumped over some trees and came to a stop at the centre of a traffic island.

I went for a short walk to the shops yesterday, and in just those few minutes I bumped into two people worrying intensely about how to get everyone to vote Labour, and what hell it will be if the wretched Tories get in again.

England rugby international Steve Borthwick worked at McDonald's when he was 16 to pay for his driving lessons, though his 6ft 6in frame meant he regularly bumped into the cooking range.

What Britain knows in its bones is not how things may have bumped up and down since 2010, but rather that there has been an almighty and relentless squeeze on families, ever since 2008.

I bumped into Mark and said hello during the course of the campaign, so I must be one of the two.

Some customers look at me and say, "I know you, don't I?" It's a question that's usually followed by an apology from me: "If I ever bumped into you in my drinking career, then I do apologise if I offended you in any shape or form…" I don't know where I'm going to be in the future.

One day he bumped into his old headmaster who told him he was wasting his time.

But I bumped into him on various talk shows and then, in 1996, he represented a woman, Mandy Allwood, who was pregnant with octuplets and miscarried all eight.

Camillus only discovered the secret at the age of 17, when Anthony bumped into him in a pub on King's Road in London.

Vijayakumar: I bumped into Liv [co-founder Olivia Sibony] in Bandipur National Park in south India in 2010.

Turai Kadir, a member of staff, likes to tell a story of how she bumped into the girls three months after they arrived.

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