Example sentences of "[adv] turned up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
| 2 | Knighthoods go to the class acts , the Andrew Lloyd Webbers of this world , as well as the dull but self-important people who have merely turned up at their desks in Whitehall for enough years . |
| 3 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
| 4 | However the Earl John had duly turned up at Edinburgh , with one hundred and fifty men and the information that the enemy had passed well to the east of Doune . |
| 5 | The loyalty oath duly turned up in the book — Major Major is blacklisted and is thereby debarred from taking the oath . |
| 6 | The bridesmaid eventually turned up with a tale as long as her arm as to why , which nobody listened to . |
| 7 | passing the questioning to the Mountie bridged the void neatly , and the Mountie told us that the reason that Steve , Angelica 's business manager , also her lover , had not turned up at Toronto station was because he too was dead , struck down in his apartment by blows to the head with a mallet . |
| 8 | The judge was told that although the girl 's father was due to appear in court as a witness , he had not turned up at the hearing because the couple now planned to marry . |
| 9 | She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character . |
| 10 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 11 | He has not turned up for the past two meetings of the Supreme National Council , which he chairs and which is supposed to govern Cambodia , in conjunction with the UN , in the period up to the election . |
| 12 | Emily Lightbody had not turned up for work since the preceding Friday , a rare occurrence in all her thirty years of service . |
| 13 | Mrs Allen 's body was found at her Harberton Park home on Tuesday morning after a senior officer at the Maze informed Banbridge police that she had not turned up for work . |
| 14 | They had still not turned up by two o'clock , and since their sandwich lunch was in the car , Jack and Warnie were feeling ‘ uncommonly peckish ’ . |
| 15 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 16 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 17 | That should n't relate to all you RUNNING readers who have followed Bruce Tulloh 's training schedules thoroughly and not just turned up on the day , unprepared and with no training under your belt . |
| 18 | These funny-looking blokes just turned up on the doorstep with rolls of carpet over their shoulders asking if we wanted to buy them . |
| 19 | ‘ Some of our team just turned up on the night , pulled and had a belly full of beer . ’ |
| 20 | A chap just turned up with my lost golf clubs . |
| 21 | Even fate appeared to be on our side : when the review copy of Madstock finally turned up on the morning of the interview , your hack managed to catch a full five seconds of guitarist Chris Foreman wandering across the park before the VHS started eating the tape . |
| 22 | Hundreds of new age travellers have already turned up to the site . |
| 23 | I wonder if that one ever turned up on juke-boxes ? ’ |
| 24 | But the dear old garment mysteriously turned up for sale at an auction in our social club . |
| 25 | Captain David Lloyd-Owen 's LRDG patrol also turned up at the rendezvous and he recalls his first meeting with him . |
| 26 | The Queen , Queen Mother and Princes William , 10 , and Harry , eight , also turned up in time for lunch in the royal shooting lodge . |
| 27 | Transatlantic birds such as the Tennessee warbler and Blackburnian warbler have also turned up in Fair Isle , amazing journeys for small birds , and especially so if they depend on insects for food , as most warblers do . |
| 28 | Further volumes of Henry Oakeley 's Journal also turned up in the County Record Office - for the years 1862–1866 . |
| 29 | vol 96. p 41 8 ) has now turned up in the normal as well as the tumour tissues of a bladder cancer patient . |
| 30 | ‘ Two policemen simply turned up at my rooms as I was leaving , without any appointment or anything , and insisted on interviewing me . |