When I put a towel on the chair, my dog sits on it and falls asleep.

The cat kept sitting on it even after I bought a new cushion.

At the reunion my grandmother sighed and said it is a wise child that knows his own father, a proverb she used whenever paternity was the subject of gossip.

When she thanked him for fixing the leak, he said, 'think nothing of it,' and went back to his tools.

We laughed as they wrestled around on the lawn, but then I thought, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

When I showed him the process, he said there's nothing to it and finished the job in minutes.

I stuck a post-it on the fridge to remind myself to buy milk.

Once the merger papers were signed and announced, the board members were in for it.

I brought an umbrella because it's raining this afternoon.

After not seeing each other for years, I ran into Jenna at the market and, after a brief hug, smiled and asked, 'how goes it?'