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"I thought it would be better to just live for a year, to bum around."

I left town for 6 months, bummed around, came back.

Then I bummed around and spent my money, looking for a job.

We bummed around the country for a while, then he found another cause.

I know who you are; you've been bumming around the system for years.

I've no family left, so I'm just sort of bumming around.

I was rather looking forward to taking some time off and just bumming around for a bit."

They went back to Saudi, so he blew off his job and started bumming around.

Or they might figure there'd been some bums around.

"That idea burns inside it, just as those flames bum around the tree."

She said she just wanted to bum around for a while."

"And we bummed around the world together afterward for a few years.

Peter had just graduated Cornell and was going to take off for a year bumming around.

They got like that prior to divinity school, when I bummed around out west for a few years.

Walked in about half past seven and bummed around.

Mustered out of the air force, planned to go commercial but wanted to bum around Europe first.

Later issues included submissions from other shovel bums around the country.

"I just sort of bummed around on my own."

I'd rather bum around here on Chrysalis and wait for a real job to open up."

Made like I was just a bum around the place and didn't even know as much as he did.

"He associates with certain space bums around town," she said contemptuously.

Why would a man my age, after decades of bumming around the galaxy, want to go back up there."

"We certainly did seem a no-good bunch of bums around that time."

"Last year we spent too long bumming around," says Jason, one of the programmers.

So I can drop you off at home and bum around the Grove for an hour.

I'm really bummed about their season, but they could have been in last place and I'd come anyway."

"I was struggling earlier this season and really bummed about how things were going.

"Jimmy is totally bummed about this," one executive involved with the show said.

He hit me on my bum about 20 times.'

You got it completely up your bum about the winter, y'know.

The family isn't bummed about the theft because "at least we got our memories".

Gary was to spend a week just bumming about his flat before going for the job interview at the factory.

The whole organization should be bummed about that.

I was bummed about leaving Park Slope, but this neighborhood is interesting.

"So if anyone was bummed about tagging a woman, you can let them know they didn't make a mistake."

He was really pretty bummed about it.

Most kids my age would be bummed about their next math test or that their parents cut their phone calls short.

I'd been on the bum about the continent for some two years, busking for change and just generally enjoying life.

"This is so much better for our family than the house on College Place, which we were so bummed about selling.

Too many ski bums about, though.

"I was bummed about no storage space, but we ended up getting rid of so much stuff," Ms. Gould said.

Anyway, I'm still bummed about Oracle taking over Sun.

"Hey," Connie said, "I know what you're bummed about, and this wasn't my decision.

(She was also bummed about not getting "The Notebook.")

While walking on the street, Lapinot and Richard accidentally bump into a bum about to commit suicide.

There are plenty of reasons to be bummed about this news, which is to say, plenty of reasons for why the band mattered.

Leonardo's bummed about it."

He is not lazy like the last one and he is more cruel and more lustful; bum about the hides.

Louis Fane, her steady boyfriend, was out of town at a conference, and she was bummed about that, and about turning thirty.

"We were bummed about that," said Bijou Miller, a member of the board of Lower Lab School's parent-teachers association.