I will be back soon.

I'm told idiot is a bad word, but where I grew up it doesn't really feel that bad.

If it's badly insulated, it won't warm up regardless of how much heating you use.

Never mind that, just take out what you've just nicked from your bag.

I broke the one I've been using till now this morning while playing with a ball in the room.

It's a waste to just have the central banks watching over commodity prices.

Soldiers barred the way to the city.

I'm teaching basic participial constructions now, but, with regard to those below, what different ways of translating them would everybody use?

Basically I like short poems. Among them this poem was my favourite.

Say ... I can hear screams coming from the women's bath.