Esempi dal corpus di testo per umbrella stand
1. Your umbrella stand is pink this week!‘ somebody says.
2. I could‘ve painted the umbrella stand a new colour twice a month and gone with it to all the parties. ‘Alriiight!
3. Realising his error, he wishes he had written a story about anything else – umbrella stands, for example: "I‘d have been better off with an umbrella stand up there.
4. "Crimes committed in corporate offices will be treated according to the same standards as other crimes." A LONG FIGHT The Tyco scandal included lurid details of how Kozlowski used company money to support an extravagant lifestyle, including a $2 million birthday party that he threw for his wife in Sardinia, and the purchase of a $6,000 shower curtain and a $15,000 umbrella stand for his $18 million Manhattan apartment.
5. Fashions are cyclical and the sudden appearance of taxidermy in interior design is an obvious reaction to minimalism, just as that was, in the words of Cook, "a reaction against the antiquated picture of the dusty Victorian drawing room complete with aspidistra and elephant‘s foot umbrella stand". But part of the resurgence of interest in taxidermy may also be, as Cook puts it, an aesthetic pleasure.