"Which doesn't sound that far if you have a car, but it sounds very far if you have to get on a bus, and you have to carry your week's worth of groceries home with you."
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Another time, he was questioned when they both were going to getgroceries.
If you owned a sporty little car, you might be tempted to drive it all the time, settling in to the comfy leather seats whenever you needed to getgroceries or meet friends for dinner.
The next morning, she walked to the Preobrazhensky market to getgroceries and fresh fish, following the crowds rolling their handcarts down a footpath lined with pensioners holding up hand-knitted shawls and strings of dried mushrooms.