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‘A person may buy groceries.’

[⟨det person.nbuy.v ⟨det grocery.n⟩]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Every 15 days or so, I’d get an email or an invalid check or something to tell me that, once again, I could buy groceries.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Besides, I was going to get paid in a few days, and I could buy groceries then.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I scheduled laundry time, when I would buy groceries, when I would prepare meals for the entire week.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’m writing this in an excellent little coffee shop a block away from the apartment (we don’t have internet yet) and I bought groceries earlier from a food co – op another block away.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Tomorrow, I buy groceries.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I do use it occasionally because I do require it sometimes, but if I’m buying groceries, and I can carry it without plastic bags, I’ll do it.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I bought enough groceries for a week, making sure to say that what is there is there and when it’s gone I cannot replace it, and they have been attacking the pantry.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I CAN BUY GROCERIES! and I’m STILL officially a triathlete.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I buy groceries, I buy clothes, I buy shoes, I buy electronics.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I could easily buy groceries for any occasion here – a dinner for three or a party of 100.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Depending on the grant, different things count: if you bought a pen or a notebook or an ink cartridge for your printer, if you traveled by train to a workshop, if you bought groceries, workshop fees, if you took time off work, etc.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I would buy groceries and produce for the week, but I would find that we could not eat it quickly enough and some of it would spoil and would have to be tossed out.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We all have to live, and armed with a credit card, one can buy groceries ahead of their expected pay date.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The first time was last year during my first week in Korea when I bought more groceries than I could handle and didn’t know my address or to speak korean to use a taxi.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The application deadline is like 2 weeks. – Now that I’m 21, I get to do important things like drink beer legally and drive U – Hauls for work. – Having bangs is a treat, I look so much cuter and never want to be bang – less again – Still hanging out with the BCC: Kristen, KC and co. – I’m still too poor / too busy to get my kitty, Chloe, declawed / fixed but it has to be soonish because her period will be here in two months and she needs to get fixed before that issue arises. – I haven’t bought groceries for myself in like 3 weeks.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’m hanging with Chelsea at some point… hopefully grabbing dinner as well cos I am STARVING… yet I just bought groceries.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Case in point: If you are feeding a small army, say, your average family of two adults and 2.5 children (Yes, I’m still living in 1984 – fuck off!), and you buy groceries to last, oh, two weeks, Mom is going to be carrying two boxes worth of reusable bags around with her to the grocery store.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Last week I bought groceries for the family (seven of us, yes two are babies, but they still eat food) and I spent $ 55 and change.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I wasn’t planning on going’ cuz I had just bought groceries, but they insisted that it would be too much food anyway, so I went along.
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Queried on 2013-06-20.