Grumbling, the heavyset sheriff opened the bag and poked through it, bumping glass vials together. |
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If we have had a number of quarters of bumping along the bottom, then it is hardly surprising that growth can now be perceived. |
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The European economy will be bumping along the bottom for quite some time before it recovers later next year. |
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By contrast, the previous low in 1999 was reached while the price of oil was bumping along the bottom. |
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In terms of celebrity, Amanda and Les have been bumping along the bottom on a low-grade notoriety. |
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With the economy believed to be bumping along the bottom, such companies might well be a good way of investing in an economic recovery. |
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Musically, however, she has bumping along the bottom for years, relying on her eye for the zeitgeist to boost interest. |
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The best you can say is that the manufacturing sector is bumping along the bottom. |
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Instead of bumping Ruby off, let the character develop-and hang on to Jesneck and Eustis. |
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Jonine ducked behind me, her chin bumping into my shoulder as a sudden stampede of underclassmen came pushing past from the other direction. |
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Allow your body to adapt to this new caloric level for seven to 10 days before bumping up calories a second time. |
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I'm more interested in whether I can hand-hold a camera in dim light, while bumping up the ISO as little as possible. |
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Some carmakers also have been bumping base prices in increments so minor, most prospective customers don't notice. |
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I was just walking through to the phone when, strike me pink, there were all these boats bumping against the foreshore. |
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She's not going to get over him by locking lips and bumping hips with some pretty little himbo! |
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The drums bubble and hiss like gas escaped from slashing ginsu blades, building into a delicious bumping middle section. |
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Lately, though, there has been so much low-hanging fruit that you can't take a step in any direction without bumping into an overripe mango. |
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A nasty, overwrought contrived thriller about a woman suspected of bumping off her appalling husband. |
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I continued my work in a daze, making little mistakes and bumping my pallet truck into things. |
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My desire to continue my career in the Marines was bumping up against my political idealism and I was unsure of what to do. |
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Maybe the lawsuit is a bother and there is another way, if only Pooh could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. |
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In Glasgow or on the west Coast, you can barely walk down the road without bumping into a pesky little trattoria. |
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There were people dancing and bumping into you and it didn't even faze you. |
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He turned and fled in terror, bumping and scraping several times against the walls he had picked his way along so carefully before. |
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She was filmed by television crews casually bumping into the group and speaking to Mr Howard and Mr Norris. |
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Then, quite suddenly, the tarmac gave up so that we found ourselves bumping along a strip of white coral rag. |
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When he moved, he automatically turned and shifted his lanky, fold-out body to avoid bumping people he seemed not to see. |
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We took off, the bus bumping along the rough coast road, charting a course due north in the late afternoon sun. |
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The carriage was moving, bumping unsteadily over rocks and crevices in the path. |
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Grinding his teeth, Mike leaves the room, almost bumping into the curvaceous woman standing just outside the door. |
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A cold wind fell out of the darkling, late-autumn sky, rushing down the sides of the little valley and bumping into the house with a start. |
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They take no note of us in their obsession, bumping us, turning gloweringly aside. |
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So, what has the dizzy blonde been doing, besides the usual clumsy bumping into things, talking rubbish and general silliness? |
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I could easily imagine Aaron Spelling bumping into Hackman at the Playboy Club and badgering him into a quick walk-on. |
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The fluttering blue flags marking cut areas in the scorched trees signal that my days bumping down these washboarded roads have been in vain. |
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A hand reached out awkwardly, bumping her elbow against the roll of toilet paper hanging above a plastic green wastebasket. |
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The big boys are on a merger binge that is paralyzing the industry and bumping fledgling and mid-range artists off the radar. |
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The engine packs a punch, with a retrofit Brabus SB2 power upgrade kit, bumping the power output to 111 bhp. |
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The mirror slid, bumping and jouncing against the marble balustrades all the way down. |
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What parent can guard against their child bumping into an unsavoury character who can lead them astray? |
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Erin tried to arrest his downward progress but the plunging stream carried him bumping along. |
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The girl then ran along Keighley Road and crossed over the road, bumping into an elderly man. |
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Whether artificial additives or pesticides are the talking point, it's hard to focus on food without bumping into food scares. |
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The Christ Church player, whose pace carried him behind the backline, stumbled as he stooped to finish, bumping the ball out. |
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Our speech ended there, for Burginde came bumping up the steps with a bucket of warm water. |
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I could clearly see my size 10 mayfly nymph as it proceeded downstream, bumping and lifting off the bottom. |
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What this did was massively penalize the Netherlands, bumping it out of the seeded teams and making it one of the sides nobody wanted to face. |
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The flick of a whip started the carriage rolling and bumping over the rough street. |
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Without thinking, Colget leapt over the seat, bumping the steering wheel with his foot as he did so, and began slapping Gregor in the face. |
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This way you can fish the lift method, but minimise false bites caused by fish bumping against too vertical a line. |
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As Vernon explains, the slow, rhythmic grinding, bumping and shaking is great for toning bottoms, abdominal muscles, thighs, backs and arms. |
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The solitude was broken, bizarrely, by bumping into Michael Palin and his film crew working on their next project in the Hoggar Mountains. |
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With about 750,000 residents, what are the odds of bumping into a native South Dakotan outside its borders? |
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It went around corners happily, and wasn't badly upset by the sort of suburban ruts and bumps which had the YRV thudding and bumping along. |
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Suddenly, three taxicabs raced along both sides of the motorcade, even bumping against the security car. |
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Behind, the young women are fast asleep, their heads gently bumping against each other now and then. |
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Darcy gave a little whimper, and then Austin distinctly heard the sound of something bumping against the tile. |
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Her smoke curled toward the light over the table where a moth was bumping against the bulb. |
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Then imagine bumping into the players by chance afterwards to tell them exactly what you thought of their display. |
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There is little chance of casually bumping into people, and I can see why stars who crave anonymity choose to live here. |
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Because of my disfigured body I chose to swim when there was no chance of bumping into anyone I knew. |
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Isabelle met Calissa at the Astoria Mall to avoid bumping into anyone she may know. |
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The cars jerked and yawed so much that we were constantly bumping our heads or smashing our elbows. |
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I instantly pushed myself up, bumping my head on the headboard in the process. |
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A stairway upon which a tall man is in danger of bumping his head is an example of bad art. |
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He has decent size, so bumping him off his route at the line is a difficult task. |
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Ten strangers are trapped by a rainstorm at an isolated desert hotel and someone starts bumping them off until they eventually turn on each other. |
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People were bumping and grinding together on the dance floor and others were either making out in a free corner or sitting and trying to have a conversation. |
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Nine skills, toxophily, stone bumping, jumping, walking, swimming, rassling, talking, writing and calculating were popular for men to practice at that time. |
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Driving a potential customer along the road he would suddenly swerve onto the berm, bumping along the road edge to prove what a smooth ride the car gave. |
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Neil, my former team leader, has taken to bumping blindly around the building in a virtual reality helmet, humming Born To Be Wild and making vroom noises. |
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But in Isabella's case, the disease was only diagnosed when she was taken to hospital after bumping her head when Miss Wagstaff fell downstairs while carrying her. |
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One couch was very close to a bookshelf, and Barbara explained to me that bumping your head on this bookshelf was a rite of passage for members of the English Department. |
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Most of these units offer multiple safety features such as an automatic safety shut-off due to bumping or knocking it over and grills to keep hands away from hot surfaces. |
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At dawn you'll find him bumping around the Coomera Valley with a van full of bleary-eyed passengers in tow and a basket creaking on the trailer behind. |
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Also like Hillman, Clear Channel has a lot of money tied up and unreachable in property, and is bumping along atop a pile of almost overwhelming debt. |
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Sheppards House is one of those labyrinthine '60s blocks where the steps are always damp and you can live next to your neighbours for years without ever bumping into them. |
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From there it was a further eight hours or so bumping along on the back of a truck, under a full moon, squashed up with other passengers balancing on sacks of rice. |
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My brother and I would pretend fight, I'd be knocked down, and then I'd roll down the hill while bumping against tiny rocks and other imperfections peppering the slide. |
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I wandered about tripping over palm roots and bumping into dusky maidens in my fit of jet-lag and bliss, before falling asleep among the other bodies and bright cushions. |
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Camel pilots had to give the aeroplane full right rudder while bumping across the field on takeoff or the torque of the rotary engine would cause the craft to ground loop. |
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Mr Baker-Smith told the inquest that he then went to a nearby shop-taking Mr Stooke with him and as they walked, he was swaying from side to side and bumping into him. |
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Whatever the case, Qantas, in capitalising expenses, has been bumping up its net profit in the past couple of years by up to 15 per cent, though it doesn't state this. |
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Such cloud as the morning warmth develops is bumping into an upper inversion layer, spreading out and then evaporating as the surface-generated convection dies away. |
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And bumping up the superannuation surcharge on the well-off is hardly justified when one of the biggest imbalances in the economy is between savings and investment. |
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Two ambulances had appeared from somewhere behind the tanks and were bumping and bucking as fast as their drivers dared take them across the broken ground. |
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The team has committed heavily to Pena, handing him the first base job and bumping Young off the position shortly after signing Young to a four-year deal. |
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Mr Lamb had a strong start but disaster struck at Great End when he tripped, gashing his right knee, bumping his head and cracking a couple of ribs. |
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And because glass is see-through the chances of you bumping into stuff in the first place would increase dramatically. |
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The pair, who first met five years previously at a health resort, began dating months after bumping into each other at a wine bar near his home. |
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Wittgenstein carried him to the headmaster's office, then quickly left the school, bumping into a parent, Herr Piribauer, on the way out. |
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The next day, the bumping crew will start ahead of any crews that have been bumped. |
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Other regattas, head races and university bumping races are held along the Thames which are described under Rowing on the River Thames. |
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The sunglasses went next, since I kept bumping into other specky bohemians, coming the other way. |
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In addition to three fiducial capture, we relied on experience with semiconductor printing and the technique used for wafer bumping. |
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Bert came hustling up, bumping his way through the kids with his bay window. |
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His daughter Letty is involved with her job of newscasting and bumping into an old adversary named Randy Whitcomb wounded by Lucas. |
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It is easy to picture the scene in motion and envision the cookie-cutter houses circling in lazy eddies, bumping into each other gently. |
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