Please take a bath.

Needless to say, dealing in rice is a declining industry.

An offering of flowers had been placed at the grave.

Carpets have the effect of a dust pocket, with merit of sucking up dust and stopping it flying around, but you can say that effect backfires.

Karl Marx says, "The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles."

According to the guidebook, this is the best restaurant around here.

I explained the situation, as this, that and such and such, but they just nodded along without showing much interest.

You were about to dump her flat out , weren't you?

The snail shot out its horns.

I hear you've done some pretty extreme stuff.