Example sentences of "up on time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , ’ he said with a grin , ‘ today I turned up on time . ’ |
| 2 | If they have an appointment with somebody they try and turn up on time or if they are going to be late , they ring up and apologise . |
| 3 | For example , in the story above , Mrs Glen may have jumped to the wrong conclusion but if you were Mrs Glen how would YOU feel if you were tired , your lesson had been disrupted by exams in the hall next door , several people in the class were being awkward , you get interrupted by an unhappy violin teacher moaning about his pupils not turning up on time and then you re-enter your classroom to find someone crawling under your desk with a handful of expensive musical instrument ? ! |
| 4 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 5 | You can expect 24–hour room service served up on time and with the minimum of fuss . |
| 6 | Born in Hackney of Jamaican and St Lucian parents , she is conscientious about turning up on time and ‘ not having a hangover ’ . |
| 7 | Would the star turn up on time ? |
| 8 | He was a very nice man and popular with the journalists , who gave him a ragged but friendly cheer for turning up on time . |
| 9 | Thank you very much for turning up on time . |
| 10 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 11 | They might turn up on time and do all the right things , or they might not . |
| 12 | Although he was pleased that they had managed to set everything up on time , he continued to mutter about the remaining android being alive , threatening them from somewhere on the planet . |
| 13 | I will end up on time . |
| 14 | Similar sort of principle erm and you give er you give people lottery tickets if they turn up on time . |
| 15 | tried to increase er erm well reduce tardiness at work , make sure people turn up on time , you have somebody dishing out lottery tickets to people who get there by nine o'clock , something like that , okay ? |
| 16 | The runners roll up on time and take their marks on the start line … 143 have made it … |
| 17 | THERE will be no reward for poll tax payers in Middlesbrough who pay up on time . |
| 18 | ‘ We did not want to have poorer people paying slightly extra to subsidise those wealthier individuals who can afford to pay up on time , ’ said council leader Michael Carr . |
| 19 | So what does it did Philip pay up on time ? |
| 20 | cos he fucking did n't turn up on time ! |
| 21 | Doreen Wranklin could n't understand it as she had always paid up on time . |