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The man tried to put the furniture on the floor but the 
Here's how I want to continue it: furniture was too large.

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After the doctor said to quit smoking to avoid lung disease, Nelson obeyed while Kenneth kept smoking. 
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The civic infrastructure team was tasked with getting the bridges built with iron instead of copper because the 
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iron was in surplus.