It is difficult to keep up a conversation with someone who only says "yes" and "no".

"What's up? Fidgeting like that" "Er, well, it looks like the elastic's gone in my pants."

A certain movie was novelized - rather it was a scenario written for a movie that was expanded as a novel and localized to Japanese.

Could it be that her prickly attitude is just because she has period pains? No, couldn't be.

However, it was not just me – there was one more person, no, one more creature visiting.

No, it's a national treasure, you see. This is the first time we've seen it as well.

No, please don't concern yourself. I have learnt to do as the Romans when in Rome.

"Does your back hurt?" "No, not really." "Oh, that's something then, isn't it?"

"Did you possibly not notice until just now?" "Er, well ... it was just so beyond my imagination that ..."

"Is that implying that I go get some sugar in me and then work more?" "Er?" "No, sorry. I'm just sulking a bit."

"Oh? Then, as I expected, I've been around longer than you. This year I'm 20-mumble years old." "What does that tell me?"

She doesn't hate him. In fact, she loves him.

He knows nothing about Lincoln, or for that matter, about America.

His answer was in the negative.

"Do you have any siblings?" "No, I'm an only child."

I have never heard her say 'No'.

I'm a professor, or rather an associate professor, to be exact.

I usually ride my bike to school. I mean to the office.

It was a long letter, but in brief, he said, "No."

"Is there any sauce left?" "No, there is none."