Example sentences of "[noun] turn up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly one of the best-known bandits in existence turns up , parks nearer us , and starts giving unknowing grins . |
| 2 | Yin and yang ; animus and anima ; the pairing turns up so often , not surprisingly it is sometimes taken for a universal principle of human thought and categorisation . |
| 3 | Basically the same sentence turns up six times in succession — a phenomenon which might otherwise be thought to exist only in the worst kind of foreign language teaching drills . |
| 4 | Some of this noise turns up unexpectedly when cruising around the motorway limit , and the only answer is to go faster or slower . |
| 5 | You wo n't have to act ; you wo n't have to worry about the expression on your face when the squad car turns up . ’ |
| 6 | One indication of the effect produced by Boulestin 's recipes is that whenever a second-hand copy of one of his books turns up — and that is not often — one finds it scarred with pencil marks against the recipes which have been cooked by the previous owner and often , slipped somewhere among the pages , a list of dishes noted for future trial . |
| 7 | Chef turns up the racing heat |
| 8 | I had the amplifier turned up pretty loud , but it was covered with all these cloths and baffles which gave a really dirty , muffled sound . |
| 9 | Fans turned up to gigs in ridiculous anoraks , sold fanzines with names like Frothy Pop and pretended they were carefree 18-year-olds . |
| 10 | Just enough shoppers turned up to leave both sides of the Sunday-trading debate feeling vindicated . |
| 11 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |
| 12 | His eyes turned up , quite white , for five full seconds . |
| 13 | The dog , after lapping a little water , went and sat down heavily beside him , eyes turned up at the portrait of itself thoughtfully , perhaps making a critical assessment of it . |
| 14 | His eyes turned up so that only the whites were left and he made an ugly sound deep in his throat , then he went forward , full-face on to the ground . |
| 15 | When she and Dot turned up to visit , he just was n't there any more . |
| 16 | Clearly , however , where the overall number of speakers is small as it is in many sociolinguistic surveys , the number of higher-status speakers turning up in a random selection procedure which samples from the entire urban area will be correspondingly small . |
| 17 | Pauline 's wide , full mouth turned up at the corners . |
| 18 | His mouth turned up lazily . |
| 19 | His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery . |
| 20 | I found nothing else of interest but Bernice turned up a couple of old school exercise books of Billy 's and decided to keep them in remembrance . |
| 21 | She looked down at her new French muslin pyjamas , the corners of her thin lips turning up in a rueful smile , wondering if the whisky stains would come out — and deciding that they probably would n't . |
| 22 | A quick flip through my cookery books turned up some Italian and Middle Eastern dishes that bore a passing resemblance to what had happened on Rebecca 's plate . |
| 23 | Edward turned up late for their rendezvous , and found Foley standing at the bar with a much younger man who had a long , intelligent face and a quiet manner , whom he introduced as Harold Philby , known as Kim . |
| 24 | Former test pilots , engineers and craftsmen turned up to watch a fly past by two of the jets . |
| 25 | As they had expected , none of the invited speakers turned up , but Eamonn Melaugh , who did speak , forecast violence if houses were not built . |
| 26 | When the last shot had been fired and the troops left for the United States , many GIs turned up at embarkation points with loyal canine friends concealed in their kit bags . |
| 27 | Schellenberg turned up the collar of his greatcoat and leaned back in the corner pulling the peak of his cap over his eyes . |
| 28 | At first we thought that the foragers might simply be suffering from some sort of apian hydrophobia , but when we increased the distance of the feeding station so that the dances indicated the far side of the lake , recruits turned up in great numbers . |
| 29 | Long before the incriminating photograph turned up on Major Tzann 's desk , he would be over the Czech border and awaiting the transport which would convey him to Germany , and thence to the United States . |
| 30 | " Do you know , it was like a holiday camp when we organised the disco , 400 kids turned up . " |