Example sentences of "turned up [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the qualifying stages they were drawn against Finland and Norway and staggered unconvincingly towards the finals , after only 13 members of the pool turned up for a training session at Ayr before the vital away match in Oslo . |
| 2 | The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting . |
| 3 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |
| 4 | Two thousand , seven hundred people turned up for the opening session of Object World ‘ 92 in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago , Katy Ring was one of them . |
| 5 | Twenty-six teams turned up for the sporting events which included bowls , mixed netball , darts , 5-a-side football and the ever popular It's-a-Knockout and Superstars events . |
| 6 | HUNDREDS of young fans were left disappointed after they turned up at a video store to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger and found a lookalike instead . |
| 7 | Even John Major , who is a friend of Wigley 's , turned up at a Plaid party a few years ago . |
| 8 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 9 | BNP candidate Dr Donald Clarke turned up at the Dolphin Centre to join the town 's three other candidates in a meeting organised by Darlington Environmental Watch . |
| 10 | I turned up at the Comedy Store here in London one night , petrified , because in those days it was a pretty testing place with a drunk , unruly audience . |
| 11 | It just so happened that Mandy turned up at the afternoon surgery . |
| 12 | STAFF AT Lincoln turbine Service Limited turned up at the Moat House Hotel , Aberdeen on 5 December for their five-course Christmas Dinner [ well , who would n't ] . |
| 13 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
| 14 | She turned up at the Café Dôme one night , her beautiful dress torn to shreds . |
| 15 | Subsequently this craft turned up on the south west coast of Southern Ireland and was proved to be a regular smuggler in those waters . |
| 16 | The karaoke machine had played the tune a month before the tune turned up on the wireless set . |
| 17 | No sooner had a special train , carrying 633 people who had taken refuge at the West German embassy in Warsaw , arrived in Hanover yesterday than at least 200 more refugees turned up on the embassy doorstep . |
| 18 | Suddenly she laughed , face turned up to the platinum moon . |
| 19 | It was a woman in sun-glasses , the collar of her short , smart coat turned up against the morning mist . |
| 20 | In 1959 Dean Martin turned up in a Sinatra film , Some Come Running , having been wandering in the Hollywood wilderness since breaking up with his former screen buddy Jerry Lewis . |
| 21 | Corporal Philip Ainsworth and Lance Corporal Andrew Zolden turned up in a 27-tonne Foden six-wheeler capable of hauling a light battle tank with its remote-control crane . |
| 22 | As you probably know , Eddi turned up in the TV series Your Cheatin' Heart , not so long back , doing her joint vocal and thespian thing . |