We buy a sofa instead of a ski trip, not taking into account that we will get used to the sofa very quickly and that it will stop being a source of happiness, while the vacation will likely stay in our minds for a long time.
He described a few simple pieces of furniture, a sofa and a chair or two.
Wednesday morning's London Times was still cool from its afternoon journey from Rhyl as Hopkins carried it to a sofa underneath a sconced gas retort.
According to officers, English, of no fixed abode, had a bottle of white spirit which he had spread around the flat, and he tried to set light to a sofa and a curtain.
Mr Blair himself works from a sofa in a cosy study next door, which would be rejected as too small by the personal assistant to any corporate big hitter, let alone by the boss himself.
She then spent the night outdoors on a worn sofa using a plastic raincoat for cover.
Driving the previous 300C SRT8 (with the big Hemi V8) hard felt like trying to move a sleeper sofa up a flight of stairs.
It showed Prokopi, in jeans and boots, sitting on a sofa and holding a paper cup.
Behind a sofa, put a console table or, if you have the room, a round center table as Kathryn has done here.
Christie's described the work, which shows Jobcentre supervisor Sue Tilley asleep on a sofa, as a "bold and imposing example of the stark power of Freud's realism".
Some of the little tricks that always work with younger boys are things like always sitting in a sofa, or a chair with big, soft arms if possible.
Nor will a large stash of cash underneath the sofa, a flash car, a yacht or even a villa in Marbella.
They found a spacious private room with a pullout sofa bed, a family bath and large flat-screen TV.
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Net shoppers will buy a sofa while flipping around a crystal-clear 3-D image of their model on-screen and speaking with a salesman by PC.
At the makeshift showroom, two sociable poodles welcome visitors who are seated on a sofa in front of a coffee table weighted down with stacks of fashion magazines.
He likes the way a throw on a sofa can change the character of a room.
The sofa is a dove gray, while the kitchen, built from more stained birch, seems to disappear into the white walls.
Whether using a bolster on a bed or a sofa, think of it as a charming diplomat, well-mannered and calmly efficient but capable of fun.
On the evening before her death Mr Mann said his wife had asked him to hug her and they had sat together on the sofa for a number of hours.
Meanwhile, a food official in Luliang in Shanxi has had demerits after internet users exposed photos of a luxury sofa and toilet and a double bed in his office, Xinhua reports.
Ushered into the living room by the secretary after a quarter of an hour, Husna gazed around her, as petitioners do, more tense than curious, taking in the worn gold brocade on the sofa, a large Chinese painting of horsemen over the rosewood mantel.
One thing Mr. Rosen has also learned from staying in hotels, he said, is that guests often leave thinking about the small details: the pillows, the down comforters, a nice sofa, bath towels of a certain quality.
She sat down on a sofa and tucked her feet under her, leaning against a large pillow.
You can even seat visitors on a low sofa across the room and place a coffee table in front of them.
The well-known venture capitalist recalled the incident while sitting on a leather sofa in his staggering penthouse: a newly completed two-bedroom, three-bath 5, 500-square-foot apartment on the 60th floor of the Millennium Tower with views from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Bay Bridge and beyond.
She draped a bed in midnight blue velvet and put it in the living room (because a bed is more relaxing than a sofa, of course), tacked ikat fabrics over embroidered benches, and served couscous dinners wearing a djellaba.
Mr Lassalle began his fast in March, sitting almost daily on a sofa in an ornate room of the National Assembly in Paris, to protest against what he considered to be a relocation plan by Toyal, a Japanese-owned manufacturer of aluminium pigment.
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During our winter, when a person settled into the sofa in the salon with a book and started reading, he or she was not interrupted.
Mrs Morris was then found slumped on a sofa in the bungalow apparently not breathing.
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