Sentences with phrase «so plonking»

Unfortunately you can't watch the show without having to get interactively involved and so plonking the kids in the middle of the living room whilst it is running is not an option (that's bad parenting though right?).

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

Not exact matches

Even so, Fernando Alonso raised a few eyebrows when he plonked his McLaren fifth fastest in Q1, just two tenths off the quickest time and even setting the fastest middle sector of all.

At the Portuguese GP that year Martini led a single lap - the only time Minardi ever did so - and when the car was used at the start of 1990, Martini managed to plonk it on the front row at Phoenix for the team's best ever grid slot.

So we grabbed two beers from a local kiosk, and plonked ourselves down on a couple of chairs in the street in the sunshine, no more than fifty metres from the pub.

The Tory leader watched Cowell explain his idea on Newsnight, for «some kind of referendum - type TV show where you can speak on both sides and then open it up to the public to get an instant poll», although Cameron was a bit more wary of the suggestion that Cowell would plonk a red telephone on stage so that No 10 could ring in to make its case.

Will sports car buyers follow BMW down this road by plonking $ 150,000 or so on a 2014 BMW i8?

So yeah... brilliant... pay a godawful fortune for a bottle of» vintage» vinegar / plonk with a fancy label on it.

According to Skoda, there's big demand for a big spec sporty Superb, so they're answering that demand by plonking -LSB-...]

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.

So if you're a budding wine enthusiastic looking for some handy tips on how to distinguish the good stuff from the plonk, check out our guide to choosing a brilliant wine every time.

For the second time around I like to change the look completely... so if they are tall like this, cut «em off and change the whole look and feel with the vase... first off, to be very honest, these were just plonked in the biggest vase I could find when they arrrived... but I didn't want to let them go to waste without some Beach Cottage foofing: --RRB-

Multiplayer wouldn't come along for a while, so it was entirely expected that you would plonk down on a seat, fire up a game and enjoy it by yourself.

In it you attempt to build railway lines connecting various locations, spending cards to do so and plonking -LSB-...]

We've plonked both vids here in this post (hit the jump for the alpha gameplay footage) so you can marvel at the similarities and the slight differences.

I've never really been interested in games like Minecraft; I like a game with goals and objectives, so being plonked in the middle of a world and told to just build stuff doesn't really excite me.

Instead they plonked you in a VW Camper van in a race so sleep - inducingly slow that even Captain Slow himself would have nodded off.

So if you want to plonk it right on the side of your TV, that's a thing you can now do.

I have to confess here to not yet having drunk the bottle of plonk that you sent me, so I don't speak with any authority.

When new data comes along — pointed ears, for example — rather than just plonking it out there and relying on the public to remember the other bits, we should make sure in each paper that we briefly run over the whole thing again so the public can again draw an educated conclusion.

Up until the iPhone 8 and beyond, wireless charging had to be a sore spot for many iOS devotees; Android flagships had been charging without wires for a few years, and that's why it's so important now that cases don't impact on their ability to just plonk their device down on a pad and walk away.

Wireless charging is included and you'll find that there's a wireless charging pad in the box when you buy the Lumia 930 in the UK, so you can simply plonk it on to top up the juice.

It's easy to go ga - ga over a handset that offers so much for so low a price, but there are certain things you should know about it before you plonk down your hard - earned money.

And so, the default setting for Huawei's smartphones sees apps plonked on the home screen, just like iOS.

We don't walk through the door until after 6 on Thursdays and everyone is STARVING, so I'll plonk a bowl of cucumber, cherry tomatoes and carrot sticks in front of the kids while I get to work on quickly making something like this (which was gobbled up, even the avocado)...

So, after doing the art class and skipping run, I plonked some leftovers in front of the kids and bolted.

Why so many people will choose a red or white «plonk - de-plonk» over a decent name - brand rosé bewilders me.