How To Use Sofa In A Sentence
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Her desire to pass as white is presented without a great deal of judgment, except insofar as she acts cruelly towards her mother.
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Having designed many elements in the hotel, from the bedside lamps to the banquette sofas, he has now set his sights on a much bigger challenge.
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It's a very nice sofa but it doesn't fit in with the rest of the room.
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Mariah excused her for doorbell duty and we all lounged out on the floor and sofa.
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And don't forget, they're celebrating this milestone with a way-cool anthology of audio fiction: StarShip Sofa Stories, Volume 1!
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With her legs curled under her on a sofa, she is relaxed enough to punctuate the conversation with sudden gusts of wild laughter.
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On Sunday evening, after the dishes had been washed and Jared was in bed, Charisse and Stefàn were lounging comfortably on the plush leather cuddler sofa in their den and listening to a classic Grover Washington, Jr. CD.
Who Said It Would Be Easy
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Mum says you can kip on the sofa tonight.
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I found myself in a salon with a very well-painted, highly varnished floor; chairs and sofas covered with white draperies, a green porcelain stove, walls hung with pictures in gilt frames, a gilt pendule and other ornaments on the mantelpiece, a large lustre pendent from the centre of the ceiling, mirrors, consoles, muslin curtains, and a handsome centre table completed the inventory of furniture.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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June 6, 2009 at 5:17 am come to think on it….a buddy of mine that I house/pet-sit for has a sofa that might be part nauga.
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They are a legitimate use of force insofar as they are used in defense and retaliation against foreign aggression.
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The vodka and whisky are flowing and it's just about time to chill out on the sofa with a good film.
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I plan to have a short catnap (ten minutes tops) on the sofa before jogging down the road to class.
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In a large tent tribal elders sat on faux velvet sofas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Among the sofas I encounter a perspex case containing a sleek-looking chair.
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Ben left the blankets on the back of the sofa while he followed Hoss upstairs to gather his own warm clothes from his bedroom.
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She suggests a four-stage process: walk into your house; turn the oven up high; prepare two or three ingredients in imaginative combinations (such as poussin, sweet potato and red onions; or cod, courgettes and capers); slap them in the oven, soused with oil and herbs; and retire to a sofa to souse yourself with something even stronger.
Sorted For Brill And Whizz
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This may be least true of the long "culottes", trousers most closely resembling a skirt, and at best mistakable for a skirt, but insofar as "culottes" establish the principle of dividing woman's outward apparel from the waist down, they merely disguise the grave disorder.
The Modesty of His Lordship
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Historically, orders of friars could not own property, and individual friars were beggars hence the term mendicant, although this was changed insofar as the orders were concerned by the Council of Trent.
No Uncertain Terms
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You're not the only one cowering behind the sofa this series.
The Sun
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The lounge was big, and filled with many comfy sofas and recliners.
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Your expression insofar as I could decipher it was one of quiet appreciation.
The Guardian World News
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One family was loading kitchen cabinets, a sink, a refrigerator, a sofa and a radiator on to a large truck.
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First thing that shocks is the decor - everything looks really dated - the sofas seem to be fraying at the edges and the wooden dancefloor is in a poor condition.
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Two large lamps stand on a console table behind one sofa.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do I have to get a sleeper sofa, or does anyone still make Murphy beds?
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They had the same mixture of comfortable sofas and chairs and slightly more serious upright chairs and tables.
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In the SOFAR channel, low frequency waves may travel thousands of miles before weakening.
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“I eats them,” said Stella, reversing her small cauliflower-like person on the sofa, till only a circle of white rims with a nucleus of coventry frilling, with two pink legs kicking gently upwards, were visible.
Red Pottage
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There was couches, sofas, chairs, and tables everywhere.
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The small sofa on which she had placed herself had the form to which the French give the name of _causeuse_; there was room on it for just another person, and Ransom asked her, with a cheerful accent, if he might sit down beside her.
The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)
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The emu is like a walking sofa or a duffle coat on legs.
The Sun
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Have white loose covers made for the sofas and chairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then get him a ride home, or failing that, plunk him on the nearest sofa.
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I just want to crash out on the sofa.
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And a varied collection of sofas and chairs is infinitely more interesting than matching sets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then it's the middle of the night, I'm in a hospital room, somebody is breathing stertorously in the next bed behind a curtain, my brain feels like a horsehair sofa and my mouth tastes like I've eaten one.
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The first foot-weary shoppers began to emerge with one female shopper expertly manoeuvring a giant trolley containing a four-seater sofa to the check-out.
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Two of them then, equally cheerily, climbed into his bed (the third crashed out on the sofa).
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I was sitting on the sofa with a man I was dating whom my daughter was quite fond of.
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The grandeur is tempered by contemporary touches: sofas are vibrant velvet and walls are decked with modern artworks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Carla, curled up on the sofa, was smoking a cigarette and stroking her cat.
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Judicial rules, promulgated prior to such statute and which were more favorable to the interests of remaindermen, can be relied upon by the latter only insofar as said rules were intended to operate retroactively; for the decedent, in whose estate the remaindermen had an interest, died even before such court rules were established.
The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
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When he was gone she rushed upstairs and plopped down on a sofa next to a reading lamp in the anteroom and opened the folded paper.
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Secluded inside the historic Hotel Monaco and accessible through a tunnel-like entrance from Eighth Street NW, you feel like you're anywhere but Washington, especially once you stretch out on one of the low, cushioned sofas with a well-made cocktail.
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The girl loses control of her boy's toys and by the time l'hunque emerges from his boudoir, la fille has been eaten by the sofa.
The Hard Sell: Stella Artois
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Many family rooms also have a sofabed.
The Sun
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To fall down on the sofa and tear off her clothes and beg him to make wild, abandoned love to her.
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I just want to crash out on the sofa.
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For the most drama, try using deep eggplant in a single piece of furniture, such as a sofa or perhaps a trio of tasseled pillows.
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It was a large room, with a "boughten" ingrain carpet, stiff chairs, two great square ottomans, a big sofa, and some curious old paintings, besides a number of framed silhouettes of different members of the family.
A Little Girl in Old Boston
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Everything we didthe way we walked, talked, the way we sat slouched, one leg draped across the armrest of the sofadrove him crazy.
Postcards from Heaven
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The children had smeared peanut butter all over the sofa.
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The Leather Sofa Company is now the premier arena in the South East for leather sofas, suites, armchairs, recliners and the new vogue - suede and leather cube poufs.
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We wouldn't want anything glamorous, just basics such as a hot drinks dispenser during winter, a small TV to wile away the hours, comfy sofas, a small toilet and maybe a crèche for the little ones.
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It was at this point I rolled off the sofa with helpless mirth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alternatively, if your sofa's legs have a square base, you could use self-adhesive felt pads, attached to the base of each leg.
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Luckily, we found him dozing behind the sofa.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dog sledding is one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences insofar as if you have done it once you know better than to ever do it again.
AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
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This afternoon we have bought a new sofa, a dining table and six chairs and a sideboard!
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As the wind howled in the chimney, we sat on a sofa in front of a roaring fireplace.
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Relax on tan leather sofas drinking cosmopolitans and manhattans.
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Peach escapes narrowly to design another day although her pink polka dot snore of a dress (even she admitted earlier it looked like "Barbie's sofa") is called "matronly" by the judges and like "an Amish cocktail dress" by MK (his lines are doubling me over so far this season).
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One of the last photographs of him shows him in his seventeenth-century timbered cottage, resting on a sofa beside the massive open fire chimney corner.
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Near the middle, Semiha Berksoy, a 90-year-old Turkish opera squawker, campily bedizened and reclining on a sofa, is slowly propelled across the stage as a recording of the Liebestod is encroached on by her decrepit screech.
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Or are you always finding coins down the back of the sofa?
Times, Sunday Times
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Wanjiku started sweeping the bare concrete floor round the tatty sofa and dusted Austen's desk which rocked against the shiplap walls.
WHITE LIES
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My wife and I bought these nice microfibre sofa and love-seat when we got married.
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Abraham Sofaer, who chairs Gen-Probe's nominating and governance committee, cites what he describes as a communications mix-up that kept investors and ISS from receiving an explanation of Ms. Jemison's absences before the vote.
Where the Action Is
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They rolled about the sofa together like cubs.
The Glasgow Girls
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Nicky returned from washing his hands and sat gingerly on the edge of the sofa.
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If Junior had a single bed, this might be the time to replace it with a fold out sofa, futon sofa, or daybed.
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Insofar as the two halves are extricable, Tiersen's contribution is more compelling.
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The house is elegant but informal - slouchy white sofas in the lounge and a kitchen that runs on an honesty system, stocked with drinks and snacks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Family photographs cover various side tables perched at the end of faintly floral sofas.
Times, Sunday Times
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`It's a true story, I'm told, insofar as stories can be true.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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She dragged herself into the lounge room and collapsed longways onto the sofa.
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Still, this hard-edged argument has bite only insofar as it cautions us against the easy assumption that the marginal dollar is always worth more in the hands of the poor person than in the hands of the rich person.
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The sofa can be readily converted into a bed.
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I was ensconced on the sofa reading the paper when its shrill beeping tone drifted down the stairs.
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She lay on her mother's sofa, watching television and eating chocolates, then had a Chinese takeaway in the evening.
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He was lounging on the sofa
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The sofa can transform for use as a bed.
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Retro chairs and sofas fill the main lounge, and modern art adorns the walls.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a very nice sofa but it doesn't fit in with the rest of the room.
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Juice was sitting on the two-seater sofa and Sarah took her place next to him, pouring them each a drink.
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They enter his office to be faced with a comfortable leather sofa and an examination couch, complete with stirrups.
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I wonder what those passages can have been like; the residue is replete with an obsessive interest in excrement, disease, sexual mania, and insectlike reproduction, insofar as these apply to Muslims in general and to Muslim immigrants in Europe in particular.
Holy Writ
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And the wooden delivery pallets have been recycled into 30 sofas and 25 tables for the garden terrace.
The Sun
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Since the split, his friends have provided not only a shoulder to cry on but also a sofa to kip on.
The Sun
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She made a formal declaration that her Majesty, with the assistance of Madame Campan, had packed up all her jewelry some time before the departure; that she was certain of it, as she had found the diamonds, and the cotton which served to wrap them, scattered upon the sofa in the Queen's closet in the 'entresol'; and most assuredly she could only have seen these preparations in the interval between seven in the evening and seven in the morning.
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The film is directed and photographed deftly, particularly insofar as it touches the sentimental without clutching the maudlin.
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If you want to sell your old sofa, why not put an advertisement in the local newspaper?
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Two sofas placed back to back in the centre of a space can often define the divisions of space very well.
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I occupied a friend’s sofa and watched the Yankee game while seven or eight of my buddies pregamed.
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The new sofa was bigger than the old one, so they had to rearrange the rest of the furniture.
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Only once during our four-hour conversation does the friendly film-maker on my sofa suddenly jolt into a hardened defensive stance.
Times, Sunday Times
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A combination of chairs and a sofa are the most common choice but you could opt for all chairs, or a sofa and a loveseat combination.
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The room was carpeted, and there was a sofa in it, though a very old one, and two arm-chairs and a mahogany office-table, and a cellaret, which was generally well supplied with wine which Dobbs Broughton did not get out of the vaults of his neighbours, Burton and Bangles.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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One family was loading kitchen cabinets, a sink, a refrigerator, a sofa and a radiator on to a large truck.
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Moodie requested the use of a sofa for me during the night; but even that produced a demur from the landlord.
Roughing It in the Bush
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She cleared a space on the sofa for him to sit down.
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We sat side by side on a sofa with rebellious springs and a layer of cat hair.
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Nick was lying on the sofa, fast asleep.
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You definitely need some athleisure that is super-duper rather than sofa.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's partly to do with the deep groove that my bahookie has created in the sofa and partly bec
Undefined
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The dog nuzzled up to/against me on the sofa.
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The most commonly illustrated combinations of sofa and bed in the nineteenth century were the bed lounge, the bed couch, and the davenport sofa bed.
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Some teens bury their heads beneath sofa cushions while Jenny Jones gushes about teen makeovers on television.
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Bare white walls, chrome legged sofas, black leather - really masculine and clinical.
Painting Inspired Dress # 1
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High tripod side tables are appropriate next to the sofa or love seat for country home decor.
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As we we'd been planning to redecorate the family room some time this year I said she might as well take the two sofas.
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So now's the time to get up close and personal with your laptop for a bit of stylish sofa surfing.
The Sun
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She settled down for a quiet doze on the sofa.
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Ironically, it is only possible to write a cultural biography of this horse, insofar as it is possible, because of his multiply commodified status.
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The Ritz sofa, created for the Dutch firm Gelderland by Rotterdam designer Bertjan Pot, has a wafer-like simplicity set off by its stiletto legs.
Finding Tomorrow's Heirlooms Today
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It is most important (and many unpractised performers fall down here) to relocate to a simply awful site - at the very least, a desperately uncomfortable sofa but, ideally, under a thin towel on the hard, freezing floor of the bathroom.
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They would stumble about on the queen-size sofa in her room, neither of them really knowing what to do.
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The whole team is super excited to officially be launching the a.d. schwarz line for the first time in New York with some limited quantities of handwrought sustainably-harvested wood jewelry and Sofala plates.
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Finally tiredness overcame him, and he fell asleep on the sofa.
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After turning the pillow 45 degrees and back again, she might have tossed it casually on the sofa.
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The first thing that meets your admiring gaze is the author of Outre Mer reclining on a sofa, in a striped calamanco morning gown: - slippers, red [breakfast] tea and toast and a plate of waffles.’
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Now, it seems increasingly likely that you will soon topple sideways off the sofa arm and into the bin.
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Retro chairs and sofas fill the main lounge, and modern art adorns the walls.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rational choice theory views actors as rational insofar as they act instrumentally, are utility maximizers, possess stable and exogenous preferences, and are self-interested.
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Id relaxed in my illness and wallowed in my pit and on the sofa.
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He starts pulling kids off the cushionless sofa and stone-slinging them toward the door while the other kids and the jivey charismatics keep urging Juano on.
Underworld
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Barnabas leapt from the sofa and dashed after the biscuit that had skidded under a wing chair.
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They took furnishings, china, sofas, televisions and goodness only knows what else.
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Everyone else decided to lounge around the living room where the beautiful sofas were kept.
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She was sitting at the foot of the sofa watching TV, obviously knackered, whilst Dom played with his fire engine.
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He had a good rummage inside the sofa.
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Turn the heating up and snuggle on sofa.
The Sun
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Expect oatmeal sofas on wooden deck floors, designer lights and cool modern art.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two matching sofas and two chairs upholstered in a different but toning colour works much better.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sofa Head's greatest asset is the realisation that you don't have to set your sights on one target.
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Rooms have exposed stone walls and original beams, modern art, wicker sofas and designer lamps.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just being able to watch box sets on the sofa together, play board games and have your tea together is amazing.
The Sun
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That looked a bit iffy, too, so we decided to retire to a sofa.
Times, Sunday Times
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But even he has withdrawn to the shade of a canopy draped above a couple of threadbare sofas and that glorious moment now seems an age away.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
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As for sheeple who are willing to beat each other with mallets to get their hands on a cheap sofa, I just shake my head.
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Earl is curled up on her sofa, glass of white wine in one hand, mobile phone in the other as she studies each twirl and turn.
Times, Sunday Times
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And insofar as left or centrist governments do not debate the limits and / or confines of multiculturalism, or take measures to fully integrate non-Western cultures into the 'European identity' to become fully at home in their host countries, we can expect individuals of all persuasions to flock to the far-right (whom they perceive as having "commonsensical" approaches to these issues.)
Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free
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Moving through the archway, Elaine sinks into the soft cushiony sofa, and frowns when Beth takes a seat on the nearby armchair.
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A video piece of handwashing by Bruce Naumann sits comfortably with a splendid display of Delft tiles; and a blue-and-white chamber pot and several life-size sofa-type objects with their "backs" made from tons of processed human feces somehow go nicely with the 1661 English delftware plate deflatingly inscribed "You and I are Earth.
Dishing the 'Dirt' on Filth
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The solution is exact insofar as the model of the sphere is exact.
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Leave your barrel in the street next to the supermarket trolley, the rotting sofa and the binbag full of used hypodermics.
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He reclined on the sofa reading a magazine.
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It was his first competitive action since Royal St George's, following a much-needed break in which he vegetated on the sofa and reacquainted himself with his Rangers season-ticket.
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In the lounge was the navigator console, various computers hidden in the walls for research, sofas, tables, and reading material.
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And if so, to what extent is it authentic in capital "E" Existential terms, insofar as it is a matter of facticity, rather than volition?
Michael Vazquez: On Nénette
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The interiors have soft colours, stone and cement walls, wooden cushioned seats and sofas in the A / C room.
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She plopped down on the sofa beside me.
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So he's kitted out his shed with a sofabed and shower.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then as I got older I was soon hiding behind the sofa every time the daleks came on in Doctor Who.
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The child shrank behind the sofa as his father shouted at him.
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But now I have one babe asleep in my arms and the other babe is flaked out on the sofa.
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He got his winter jacket from the closet and dropped it on the sofa.
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I sit on a sofa that is part of an old three-piece suite around a nest of tables.
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Parquet flooring, white leather sofas, Picassos on the wall and gold everywhere; the room was reverential, a monument to tastelessness.
THE RHYTHM SECTION
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And a varied collection of sofas and chairs is infinitely more interesting than matching sets.
Times, Sunday Times
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I sit down on the low sofa, covered by an afghan throw.
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They have rubbishy foam sofas and the odd ironic beanbag, or leather pouffe.
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Just a few hundred thousand couch potato members of the sports channel pay-per-view community, watching because there wasn't any football yet, or darts or speedway or boxing, getting value for their subscriptions, fat on the sofa in last year's Premier League football jersey, thick as you like, tweeting Bumble to say how much they fancied Lily Allen and googling "lbw" to find out why the man in the motorbike helmet had to go home when the ball only hit him on the leg.
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This area would make an ideal reading or relaxation spot, as there is room to fit a set of bookcases and a sofa.
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If she flinches, makes an outcry and tries to get up from the sofa, don't worry.
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In a little we had the senseless man stretched on a sofa in the library.
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A willowy, friendly young woman settled me down on a sofa with the menu, home-made crisps expertly flavoured with sea salt and spring onions, good olives and spicy little mushroom won tons.
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A false moral equivalence is a sub-type of false equivalence; things can be aesthetically obscene and not morally obscene; the last question hardly makes sense but insofar as it does the answer is yes.
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This criterion is attractive even insofar as human mentality is concerned.
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Other family members are on other sofas and armchairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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She bustled about, turning on lights, moving pillows around on the sofa.
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We sat on the sofa and I leaned over to give her a hug.
The Sun
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She bought the sofa at the department store.
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'You must excuse her calling on you, she is never off the sofa, but --' And what a bright look he gave! as much as to say that his wife _on_ the sofa was better than any one else _off_.
The Young Step-Mother
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Her beautiful new sofa - snow-white and expensive - had just arrived, and all she wanted at the end of the day was to go home and sit on it.
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It is said he had to put up with a sofa in the corridor until his identity was revealed.
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A computer, a sofa and the all-important magnetic board with the names of the players who will help or hinder the health kick.
Times, Sunday Times
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Probably he is too busy curled up on the sofa, her in a balldress in his lap while they watch a DVD.
In your dreams ladies
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Inevitably, I'm now pooped, so I'm going to kick back on the sofa and read/doze for a while. Of course, as usual, what I really need is a good massage across my shoulders and back.
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My wife will confirm that within two minutes I was snoring away on the sofa.
Times, Sunday Times
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
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Expect oatmeal sofas on wooden deck floors, designer lights and cool modern art.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is no wonder that you are cowering behind le sofa!
Times, Sunday Times
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If the sofa doesn't fit, get out your mallet and chisel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Original solid mahogany doors set the tone; beds with squashy headboards and mountains of cushions are unbelievably comfortable, as are sofas; bathrooms are small but stylish, in racing-green marble.
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Jamie nestled up to his mother on the sofa.
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Carole sat on the sofa, out of her sheath now, and into some tight jeans, a T-shirt and cardy.
A DARKENING STAIN
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Insofar as they do not attend to the perversions of freedom and the flesh that cruelty exploits, they fail to offer a legitimate understanding of our intersubjective lives.
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Everything small and breakable must come out, and big objects such as tables and sofas should be grouped together in the centre of the room and covered with dust sheets.
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His asthma inhaler is on the sofa by him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whenever his mother wanted what she called a confidential talk with him she always selected the sofa as the most suitable ground on which to open her campaign.
The Way of All Flesh
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I hop across the lounge between wheelchair and sofa - he hitches up his right foot and copies me.
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If you want to sell your old sofa, why not put an advertisement in the local newspaper?
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There are lime green sofas and giant red vases.
Times, Sunday Times
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The three perched solemnly on the foldout sofa, while Gretchen had the one comfortable chair in the room.
IN A STRANGE CITY
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The vodka and whisky is flowing and it's just about time to chill out on the sofa with a good film.
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Hughes beckoned him to sit down on a sofa.
