(2) I Only Have Eyes for You – The Flamingos Or, to the armchair grammarian, "I Have Eyes Only for You".
(3) ITV's coverage of the FA Cup later this month, for example, will hear fans' views of the game and armchair commentaries via AudioBoo on their mobile phones.
(4) The prosaic question for the armchair mountaineer is, can the dying be saved?
(5) Still, he got one thing right that Saturday, as he sat on a golden-rimmed armchair at Cairo’s Qubba place.
(6) But it is hardly Ensler's fault if women still get a thrill out of hearing the word vagina; her plays are transforming armchair post-feminists into activists, and radicalising women more effectively than a whole generation of feminist theory.
(7) Fahy, who is also vice-president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, added: "There are a lot of judgments by armchair generals and almost professors in hindsight, not taking into context the state of society and things officers were being asked to do at the time some of these events occurred."
(8) 32 Rose Street, +27 21 422 5883, larosecapetown.com The Blue House Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rooms in The Blue House look like they could be straight from the film set of Out Of Africa , with huge leather sofas, wicker armchairs and wooden tea chests.
(9) 74 New Church Street, +27 21 423 4530, backpackers.co.za Dutch Manor Facebook Twitter Pinterest This self-styled “antique hotel” is furnished with four-poster beds, leather armchairs, period paintings and porcelain, plus a crystal decanter of sherry for the welcome drink.
(10) The writer, a self-confessed armchair critic, makes some suggestions about ways of reducing disagreement about elective induction of labour.
(11) The painting shows an old, weary man slumped in contemplation in his armchair and has spent more time in the National Gallery's storeroom than on display because it is attributed to a follower of Rembrandt rather than the artist himself.
(12) "We are the great hope for change," the politician says, his arms sprawled across the back of an armchair.
(13) ); all from the comfort of their figurative armchairs, the majority of these great thinkers and contributors having never been a part of the Olympic Movement, or themselves been to Rio.
(14) Despite the clear scientific consensus, a veritable brigade of self-proclaimed, underinformed armchair experts lurk on comment threads the world over, eager to pour scorn on climate science.
(15) 22 subjectively healthy females were supine, sat in an armchair and stood while specimens of peripheral venous blood were collected after at least 15 min in each position without using a tourniquet.
(16) Rising from a standard armchair and an armchair specially designed for comfort in sitting of the elderly was studied in the older group to determine the influence of the special chair.
(17) Shuffled back on an armchair so that her giant heels swing off the ground, she has the mannerisms of a well-behaved toddler.
(18) This furore gave the defence secretary, Philip Hammond , a wonderful opportunity to slap down the armchair generals, and he took it with great enthusiasm.
(19) Not so long ago, in the slur-filled era before this year’s election, Momentum, the grassroots group of supporters for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, were routinely dismissed as armchair activists, cultish Trots, delusional young naïfs, or some combination of the three.
(20) Tents and mattresses, armchairs and sofas, a canteen, portable toilets and solar panels have sprung up in a remarkable display of organisational prowess.
Sofa
Definition:
(n.) A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(2) Just by adding a sofa, table and chairs and some plants, we have turned this house into a home, and solved the housing crisis for one of the 6,500 rough sleepers or thousands of other homeless people in London.
(3) When the news about the attack in Woolwich broke, by pure coincidence Ross Caputi was crashing on my sofa.
(4) At the famed Winter Palace , formerly the home of the Egyptian royal family, ornate gold-and-glass chandeliers hang over empty brocade sofas, awaiting visitors.
(5) Today The Great British Bake Off (BBC1), inspired – for no special reason – by Gogglebox, which seems to have two new sofa critics.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Residents sit on a sofa on a balcony of a damaged building in Aleppo’s al-Shaar neighbourhood in Syria.
(7) When my wife Mia finally gets home, I hand the baby over and drop exhausted on to the sofa.
(8) Since furanoses in the envelope form are analogous (in some ways) to half-chair or sofa conformations and since lactones with six-membered rings probably have half-chair or sofa conformations, the results indicate that beta-galactosidase probably destabilizes its substrate into a planar conformation of some type and that the galactose in the transition state may, therefore, also be quite planar.
(9) Many iPad users see the device as a more relaxed device than a computer: something to be kept close at hand on the sofa or even in bed, with its instant-on nature.
(10) "I've ended up with everything I could want – a pool table, a table football table, dining table and chairs, sofas, carpets.
(11) Christine Bleakley, Chiles's co-presenter on The One Show, had been linked with a possible move to ITV to join Chiles on the GMTV sofa.
(12) The couple, who are Polish nationals, claimed he had fallen off a sofa.
(13) I arrive at my hotel, a friendly, functional place with a crackling fire and big sofas.
(14) A bookish teenager regarded as the smartest of the Murdoch brood, James endured an awkward adolescence in the public eye and was famously photographed asleep on a sofa at a press conference while working as a 15-year-old intern at his father's old paper, the Sydney Mirror, a picture the rival Sydney Morning Herald gleefully ran on its front page the next day.
(15) So, yes, Daft Punk are very famous indeed, but the two Frenchmen sitting side by side on a sofa in a luxurious Paris hotel suite – Thomas Bangalter, 38, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 39 – are very much not.
(16) Clash of the sofas: BBC v ITV An age-old rivalry with plenty of previous, gone are the days where you'd sigh when you found out a match was on ITV not BBC.
(17) We hear a lot about homes, and rightly so, yet we hear next to nothing about homelessness, about the people forced to sleep on the streets, in hostels and squats or on the sofas of friends and family.
(18) After all, who needs private detectives to follow Tom Watson when you can find out about his office playlist and Portal 2 marathons from the comfort of your own sofa?
(19) The online auction service has been redesigned with a focus on bigger images and a touchscreen interface, making it the perfect way to browse from the sofa.
(20) He then took aim at the viral picture of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway sitting in the Oval Office in a strange, overly comfortable manner, shoes on the sofa.