Example sentences of "[pron] turn up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ? |
3 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
4 | ‘ There was the time I turned up at the Arts Lab ( first and last time ) to see the Dylan film and could n't afford it . |
5 | ‘ I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine . |
6 | God help the feller who turns up at the factory to work in silk knickers under his overalls , but at Christmas , of course , on a stage , of course , it 's all perfectly all right . |
7 | The family 's maid has told how a dishevelled Spiro stopped her working when she turned up at the home the day after the killings . |
8 | She turned up at the Café Dôme one night , her beautiful dress torn to shreds . |
9 | It had been Marcus who turned up at the Evans house on Saturday afternoon when Pascoe was there . |
10 | ‘ But that night you turned up at the farmhouse , you said … ’ |
11 | There will be a welcome for all who turn up at the Wallingford terminus for bumper picnic on Sunday . |
12 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
13 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
14 | Some of Barnet 's players did n't know about Fry 's Friday night re-instatement until they turned up at the ground . |
15 | Mr Smith said : ‘ I cried when they turned up at the frontier . |
16 | or they turn up at the gates and go shit Mr like the headmaster 's on the door and my nipples are in and they go hang on I 've got some ice cubes here , put them on and they come out and er they go by the nipples , your nipples are looking good today . |
17 | When they turn up at the office next day looking as if they 've missed out on their sleep , however , they could get more than teasing comments from their colleagues . |
18 | Maggie 's eyes are long and wide like certain nuts , and they turn up at the ends like maidens from Disney . |
19 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The man posed as a gas board official when he turned up at the restaurant in Tarrant Street , Arundel , Sussex . |
22 | He turned up at the game with his head shaven , Gazza style , to raise money for a children 's cancer charity as part of Friday 's Comic Relief day . |
23 | The opening day of the trial was to be devoted to legal arguments and Mr Beltrami , Moira , Meehan and myself turned up at the Courts of Justice to hear them . |