noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chair/bed/sofa etc
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Is that chair comfortable?
sofa bed
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
comfortable
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He shuffled over towards the corner and collapsed on to a comfortable sofa .
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A television set is in the center of comfortable chairs and sofas .
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They put Catherine on a comfortable sofa , cleaned her wound and fed her with cakes and wine.
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It was more comfortable than the sofa upstairs.
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They were in a rest area, with comfortable chairs and sofas arranged round coffee tables.
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There were the battered lockers, the comfortable chairs and sofas that lacked some of their stuffing.
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The comfortable chairs and sofa are covered in a shiny white chintz with purple thistle motifs.
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Dexter tapped his fingers on the tubular arms of his chair, thinking how much more comfortable his sofa was at home.
convertible
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Accommodation 90 apartments with one bedroom plus lounge with two convertible sofas , cooking facilities, bathroom and terrace.
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The rooms are equipped with bathrooms and convertible sofas for parents who want to stay with their children.
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A one-bedroomed apartment for 3 with convertible sofa in the lounge.
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Drago Accommodation 261 rooms with bath/shower, terrace, kitchenette and lounge with convertible sofa .
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Tenbel Saver Accommodation Rooms allocated will have bath/shower, kitchenette and lounge with convertible sofa .
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One-bedroomed apartments for three with convertible sofa in the lounge plus an extra bed for a child under 11 available.
■ NOUN
bed
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Half board prices are based on twin rooms which can take two extra sofa beds .
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People who live near a corner where another so-and-so has abandoned a grotty sofa bed .
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The apartments themselves sleep 2-4 people in one twin-bedded room and a lounge-diner with sofa beds .
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Accommodation 294 one-bedroomed apartments with bath/shower, kitchenette, terrace and lounge with two sofa beds .
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She helped him to his sofa bed in the living room, and he still did not wake up.
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The third or fourth bed may be a sofa bed in some cases.
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The company also has a selection of folding beds , sofa beds, bunks, traditional and continental headboards and pillows.
cushion
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Flinging himself on the carpet, he buried his head wretchedly in the sofa cushions .
leather
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The only soft, welcoming touch is a black leather sofa .
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Half way through our second drink he attacked like a hawk, the cavernous leather sofa almost swallowing me.
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He returned and sat on his cold, leather sofa flicking channels.
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It featured a contemporary black leather sofa , state-of-the-art entertainment center and a gigantic pool table.
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Camel-backed 7-foot red leather sofa , $ 1, 095.
■ VERB
lie
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Miguel picked up his guitar from where it was lying on the sofa so that she could sit down.
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Instead, I took my shoe off and lay down on the sofa .
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We found Linton alone, lying on a sofa .
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We went back into the living room and I lay down on the sofa .
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I lay down on the sofa and yawned.
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Peter was lying on the sofa in the room behind.
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Mama lay down on the sofa in the living room.
look
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She shook her head free of his grip, and sat further away on the sofa , looking at him with detachment.
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Baudelaire curled up on the chintz sofa and looked doleful.
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She hadn't moved from the sofa and didn't look up when he pushed open the door.
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Night after night I sat on the sofa looking out to sea, the way Francis had.
sink
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And it's also very comfortable so you can sink into the sofa and watch television.
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He is a miserable drunk, sunk into the dressing-room sofa .
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She sank down on to the sofa , breathing deeply to steady herself.
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Feeling as though she had been punched in the stomach, she staggered into the drawing-room and sank on to the sofa .
sit
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If they sat on a sofa , they sat close together; often they shared an armchair.
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Ernie sat down on the sofa .
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Occasionally too she would simply sit crouched on the sofa and weep silently, her hands pressed to her cheeks.
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Claude and Ruth were talking quietly with Pat, who sat cross-legged on the sofa .
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He sat down on a sofa which he realised was slightly longer than his cubicle in the lodging house.
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I sat on the sofa in the dark and ate the roll, feeling bizarrely that I was a thief.
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She noticed Kattina sat on the low sofa beside her, and sat unnecessarily close.
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I sat on a leather-covered sofa that had rents in it.
sitting
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There I found a respectable-looking woman of middle age sitting on a sofa , sniffing tobacco.
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The white-haired man, bright-eyed, veined, ancient, was sitting on a sofa , drink in hand.
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The two other boys were sitting neatly on a sofa in the distance but they failed to acknowledge them.
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When I knocked at the new door and got no response, I opened it and saw Minna sitting on the sofa .
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He was sitting on a sofa outside the lecture-room, smoking a cigarette.
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She really thought she was sitting on the sofa in her living room.
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Mrs Wilson was sitting on the sofa , smiling foolishly at him.
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He was already inside, back in the living room, probably, sitting on the sofa .
sleep
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It's so loud some nights I've got to go downstairs and sleep on the sofa .
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Ruth slept on a sofa downstairs.
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When she stayed in the Berry chalet she slept on the living-room sofa .
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He slept well on the sofa .
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I slept on the sofa in the front room.
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Said could he sleep on the sofa a couple've nights.
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He was to sleep on the sofa .
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She decided to sleep on the sofa so as not to miss anything.
slump
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Louis and Madeleine were slumped on the sofa by the fireplace.
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He was slumped on the sofa , staring straight ahead.
watch
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And it's also very comfortable so you can sink into the sofa and watch television.
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The shift finishes at 2.30am, just as Britain is washing up or settling down on the sofa to watch the telly.
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She went into the living room and flopped on to the sofa to watch television.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He looked very big filling up that little sofa .
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If they sat on a sofa , they sat close together; often they shared an armchair.
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Instead, I took my shoe off and lay down on the sofa .
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On the table in front of the sofa was a vase holding four pink roses, the blooms in various stages of uncurled perfection.
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She retreated back downstairs, and climbed on to the mildewed sofa , hugging her knees up to her chin.
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Then Stan rises from the sofa and goes outside for a cigarette.
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Whitlock smiled at her then looked beyond her at the couple on the sofa .