Example sentences of "turning up [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought my form had been good enough throughout the year to warrant selection , but there is always that niggling doubt , especially as I had angered Frank Dick by not turning up for a relay practice at Loughborough where he was engaged in running the annual Summer School for athletics . |
| 2 | Gesner , turning up for the dress rehearsal the next morning , was rather bored . |
| 3 | They chuck all these people out of mental hospitals on the excuse that everyone in the community is spontaneously going to start looking after them — and surprise , surprise , they start turning up on the night shelter circuit . |
| 4 | Hundreds were able to pay their respects and express their condolences by turning up at a charity rugby match at Shiplake College , Berkshire , in aid of the Charlotte Starmer-Smith Memorial Fund which aims to purchase medical equipment for the treatment of blood diseases . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record . |