Example sentences of "turned up [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 2 | Vera turned up for a cup of coffee dinner time and ended up staying there rest of the afternoon dinner with us , oh no come on in , give us it , where you sitting , off she went |
| 3 | FIREMEN and police turned up at a house in Bracknell , Herts , with sirens blaring after Nibbles the hamster became trapped under the bath . |
| 4 | STUNNED staff turned up at a garage in Chicklade , Wilts , to find thieves had used a chainsaw to cut off and steal a petrol pump . |
| 5 | His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery . |
| 6 | Mrs Hancock turned up in a Rolls-Royce after announcing she had organised a requiem mass at Perth 's St Mary 's Cathedral on Friday . |
| 7 | 5 paintings by mass murderer Dennis Nilson , painted in a cell at Parkhurst jail , turned up in a shop at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire . |