Sentences with phrase «as plonk»

If you're planning to rest your tablet on one end while you're reading a book or magazine, then the «other» end is clear of all buttons and connections, so you won't turn it off as soon as you plonk it on the table.

He also completely adores bath time, he can be screaming his head off but as soon as I plonk his little body into the warm water he transforms into the happiest baby ever.

And none that offer as many organic wines as Plonk does.

On this particular visit, as I plonked my four - pack on the counter, the bloke who was serving said hello in a way that indicated we knew each other.

Not exact matches

Dionysus While your here, what do you think about jesus and the water into wine thingy and you being an expert was it plonk or a very fine wine, as the song goes?

I plonked in some raisins and pumpkin seeds, as well as paprika, cinnamon, nutmeg... pretty much everything.

Plus, it is still smarting from its experiences in the early 2000s when it bought BRL Hardy at the top of the market for $ 1.9 billion and watched most of that value get frittered away as the Australian dollar rose and the glory days of cheap plonk exports to the UK and US disappeared.

Bordeaux Court Deliberates on Fraud Case Involving More Than 1 Million Bottles of Wine: A Bordeaux judicial tribunal is weighing the fates of eight men accused of trying to pass off more than 1 million bottles of cheap plonk as more expensive Bordeaux from top appellations...

Quality of Wine Although we do not receive as many shipments of wine from the Plonk monthly wine club as we do from other wine clubs, we have sampled a large number of their wines over the last several years.

Although some of the wines offered at Plonk are not labeled as organic, they are still considered organic or biodynamic because of these strict growing guidelines.

As an example, in our latest shipment from Plonk, we received a bottle of amazing wine from the the Scholium Project Wine.

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As it was, the ref failed to do his job and plonked us right in the mire, with Hull jubilant they had got away with it and the Gunners fuming.

Snark, but really, your comment cracked me up as justification for why Elicia just happened to plonk down where she did.

What I like least about being a mom: Not being able to plonk on the couch with a good book and escape for as long as it takes.

Because of the design you don't need a stand — just plonk it on a shelf in the baby's room and it stands up perfectly, ready to be used as a room thermometer.

As the prime minister chillaxes with his customary glass of plonk, he'll think to himself: this wasn't quite the week I'd planned.

He may say it shouldn't be about plonking Lib Dem trophies on the mantlepiece, but actually he does quite a lot of that with us as the conversation develops.

Marc Shaiman's score may make clever period choices (backing eyelash flutters with a plonk of the xylophone, for instance), but almost every line of dialogue is tainted with as much irony as charm, transforming the film's script into a self - conscious anachronism.

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The casting was bad across the board: as for Chattrisse Dolabaille's Missy Elliott, it's as if they plonked a baseball cap on a passing stranger.

Interested parties are advised to plonk their orders down as soon as possible as limited units will be available — batches of the automatic transmission - equipped Luxury models are due to arrive in June 2015.

I could talk about the painful voice acting, the singularly cringe - worthy cut - scenes, the innumerable graphics glitches, or the moments in the game where you die for no apparent reason (especially in the snowboarding level, which is a particularly low point in gameplay terms as it even manages to feature checkpoints that you can miss by a whisker and then continue playing, only to be plonked right back at the start of the level when you inevitably die by running into a pile of rocks that you couldn't see because the camera was pointed the wrong way).

Speaking with OXM, the game's creative director Dan Greenawalt bigged - up Forza 5's Drivatar feature, which creates smart AI ghosts based on how players drive, and then plonks them into the game as opponents.

Villar Rojas has re-covered the floor with intersecting but unmortared bricks, resulting in an uneven surface and a pleasant plinking - plonking sound as visitors move across the space.

Being able to cook when you're out hunting towering creatures in Monster Hunter World isn't as simple as just plonking some ingredients over a campfire and letting a short animation play out.

No seats at my gate, as usual, so I plonked myself on the floor and unwrapped my sushi roll.

The place was BYO, but plonking a litre of vodka on the table didn't seem quite the done thing (perfectly acceptable in Russia, not as much on Sydney's north shore).