Feel free to get yourself a drink if you are thirsty.

A fact-finding committee was set up to determine the cause of the incident.

The exchange unfolding in front of my eyes had not a single millimetre of a gap in which for me to slip.

Eh? Have we run out of toner? Oh well, sorry, but can you go the staff-room and get some, Katou?

The coffee mill that I received does not work.

If only her husband helped her, most of her problems at home would disappear.

Oxygen is taken into our lungs when we breathe.

The management tended to be too concerned about short-term improvement of the bottom line to have any long-term design for the future.

The handle of the pitcher was broken.

As the artist grows older his paintings may alter.

He received a telegram saying that his mother had died.

The politician had sticky fingers, and 5% of every contract ended in his pocket.

As economy develops, labor-intensive industries give way to capital-intensive industries.

The insider trading scandal put a lot of people out of business.

Legal changes threaten online sales in digital commerce.