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with a bumpSuddenly and shockingly: the scandal brought them down to earth with a bump...- Top-flight newcomers Brasenose came down to earth with a bump, losing 32-8 to a well-drilled Keble side who dominated a bad-tempered game in the University Parks this Tuesday.
- Walton & Hersham won 6-1 at Chertsey last week, but they were brought down to earth with a bump by a 3-1 home defeat against Leatherhead on Saturday.
- It's been the same for the past four years; over the nine summer weeks, I pass quickly through the Big Brother stages of boredom, rejection, revision, adulation and elation, only to come down to earth with a bump when it ends.
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