People put lamps, coffee tables, or plants in them so they feel like they’re driving in their living room.
He walked into the living room and sat across the coffee table from them.
She picked up the tin robot he'd given her from the coffee table and turned it over in her hands, staring up its skirts at the tuna-fish illustration and the Japanese ideograms.
There was a stack of guitar magazines on the battered coffee table, and a cozy sofa with an afghan folded neatly on one arm.
coffee table| American Dictionary
coffee table
noun[C]
us/ˈkɔ·fi ˌteɪ·bəlcoɡ,ˈkɑf·i/
alowtable usuallyplacedinfrontof asofa(=long,softseat)on which to setdrinks,magazines, and othersmallobjects
The direct object is the patient "thecoffeetable" in the first sentence, and there is no direct object in the second sentence.
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The first tangible project produced by the foundation was acoffeetablebook titled, self-published in 1976.
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Indi wakes up and loses her footing, causing her to fall through a glasscoffeetableand badly cutting her face.
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Daltrey's wife was laughing so hard she knocked over thecoffeetablein the screening room.
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Peter manages to free himself, but in his drug-induced state he jumps repeatedly on the sofa before falling and hitting his head on a glasscoffeetable.
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Rizzo quickly set about turning the empty office into a living space, complete with brown and gold walls and custom-designed sofas, coffee tables, consoles and hi-fi storage units.
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Parsons tables are often intended for use as modern or contemporary furniture, and their striking design has made them popular as coffee tables, dining tables, side tables, and occasional tables.
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Even if this is just acoffeetablebook, the need to keep things simple cannot be an excuse for getting things wrong.
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They correspond to a couch, armchair, table, bookcase,coffeetable, television set, chair, wardrobe, and a cupboard.
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It is not clear how many highly scholarlycoffeetablebooks there may be, but this is certainly one of them.
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In this way, the book stands as a valuable guide and need not by any means be restricted to thecoffeetable.
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As it is, it must be recommended as good for the local library (orcoffeetable), but to be used with caution.
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One old man wept by his home of grass and twigs that was about the size of acoffeetable.
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This is not merely a matter of making the occasionalcoffeetableand taking it home.
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Let us say it is acoffeetablebook.
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