instruction:
Given a sentence, generate a most likely context or previous statement. The previous statement should be relevant to the given statement.
question:
In one of the lifeboats someone beats off panicked passengers with an oar.
answer:
People reunite in the crowd.

question:
Someone touches a girder someone holds between them.
answer:
Someone rises from the floor and sends metal beams crashing through the chamber between them.

question:
Someone turns his ear from the direction of the sounds, seems to be fighting an impulse to listen, or more than listen.
answer:
He goes back into the parlor with a mystified expression.