Sentences with phrase «front of the television set»

Any weekend morning and most evenings after school were spent parked in front of a television set watching cartoons.

But, since starting a full - time job, I've been reminded of how relaxing it can be to sit in front of a television set and enter a new world.

The feedbacks given by customers helped the Boston company realize that a large speaker exactly in front of the television sets did not seem like a very appealing design to the eye.

Forcing guests to walk through a conversation area or in front of a television set in use is uncomfortable and awkward for everyone.

Upon returning home, we may join our fellow Americans in front of the television set.

He may find himself, on home evenings, so exhausted by the time the children are in bed that he can do nothing but flop in front of the television set.

Moreover, it rings true to the entrepreneurial experience of many fundamentalist ministers, whose independent churches succeed by dint of their own labor, God's grace and the direct contributions of those in the pews or in front of the television set, unsupported by national denominations analogous to big government.

Figures on television viewing alone show that the average child today, by the time they graduate from high school, would have spent more time in front of the television set than they would in the classroom.

Second, one needs to recognize the substantial difference that exists between a response to a specific proposition gained by a broadcaster from viewers in front of a television set and the transference of that response to other situations of new behavior.

Blessed with normal agility and a certain amount of determination, it was possible on New Year's Day to spend six hours in front of a television set and emerge, dial fingers blistered and retinas raw, with a vast sense of accomplishment: attendance at four bowl games.

That was the evening he sat in front of the television set and learned Bradley had beaten Drake.

The nearest I'd been to this kind of conversation before was in front of a television set, taking in a police serial.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS — Jordan Walter, 5, was searching for an empty space among the tiny bodies sprawled in front of the television set, when she accidentally stumbled over another youngster who had gathered with the other kids on the floor to watch a «Berenstain Bears» video on manners.

Jordan Walter, 5, was searching for an empty space among the tiny bodies sprawled in front of the television set, when she accidentally stumbled over another youngster who had gathered with the other kids on the floor to watch a «Berenstain Bears» video on manners.

We parents and teachers need to understand that we can not be in front of a television set and command our kids to go to their rooms and read.

For a growing and already sizable number of charter school students in Buffalo, summer no longer means sleeping late, settling in front of the television set or getting together with friends down the street.

The Wii Remote has six buttons (plus the Home -LRB--RRB- button, which allows reconnection of controllers, resetting the game and other options regardless of which game is being played) and a D - Pad -LRB--RRB-, as well as a pointer on the front which can tell its own position in relation to a motion sensor (placed in front of the television set) and motion detection technology.

Frazier pictured Grandma Ruby sleeping on a recliner in front of a television set and then awake, looking into the camera.

You drive to work, endure meetings, colleagues, power lunches, memos and strategy sessions, only to return home through gridlocked traffic just as the sun sets, beg your kids to eat dinner, wash them, coax them to sleep, do the dishes and then mercifully collapse in front of the television set.

RE / MAX remains committed to being visible where consumers still spend a significant amount of their leisure time — in front of a television set.