Example sentences of "[vb past] turned up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd turned up on NBC talking about Middle East narco-terrorism right after Flight 103 crashed . |
| 2 | Oh Jesus , Sam , she was everybody 's Aunt Jemima , if she 'd turned up with her hair in a bun and flour on her apron she could n't have made them love her more , Jesus , Sam , we 're not guilty . |
| 3 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
| 4 | That 's where the real problem lies , if you could have had the P A , if you could have gone into the cupboard and got it , even though we 'd turned up at ten past six , |
| 5 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
| 6 | But I spent a few bob buying drinks for a couple of old OSS types who 'd turned up in their London station and they took pity on me and let drop the codename : Winter Garden . |
| 7 | Ever since he 'd turned up in her bedroom several nights before , he really had become her shadow , staying constantly by her side . |
| 8 | The director general of the Building Societies Association , Mark Boleat , said the rise was encouraging and supported the reports from housebuilders and estate agents that the market had turned up since the beginning of the year . |
| 9 | At 0810 he gathered his staff around him for the daily conference to discuss the day ahead , before taking the morning parade of those attending various courses at the school , to ensure that everyone had turned up for work . |
| 10 | Paula James , Matthew Glyrm 's youthful amanuensis ( after a one-year course in office routines at the technical college ) had turned up for work as usual , unaware of the events which had robbed her of her employer . |
| 11 | There was some muttering among officials after the game that only nine players had turned up for training on Tuesday , but despite the defeat coach Bruce Liddle remained cheerfully optimistic . |
| 12 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |
| 13 | Then Amanda had turned up on her own at Meg 's leaving party , and he 'd managed to monopolise her in a corner of Meg 's kitchen . |
| 14 | These people had turned up with uncanny speed . |
| 15 | He could n't really complain too much ; not after the time that he 'd run his patrol car into a ditch only three weeks into his new appointment , and the Middlemass girl ( 14 ) had turned up with a chain and towed him out . |
| 16 | With two brothers , he had turned up with a cash bid for House of Fraser . |
| 17 | On Monday morning Doone had turned up at Shellerton House with the plank . |
| 18 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
| 19 | The couple had turned up at Gatwick airport to discover that Mark , who is blind , had packed their bank books instead of passports . |
| 20 | They had never been able to like Sean Walsh , not since the very first day he had turned up at Benny 's tenth birthday party . |
| 21 | And if , later that day , 20 newsmen and photographers had turned up at our family bonfire party and witnessed my hysterical attempt to restrain my husband from re-lighting that dud super-rocket ( well , I was n't sure his life insurance was paid up ) , speculation as to the real state of our marriage could doubtless have made dramatic headlines . |
| 22 | We met in Bologna and while discussing the painting I informed him that the original had turned up at Wildenstein 's in New York , and had recently been sold to a New York private collector and that an article of mine was in proof , publishing the New York picture as the original . |
| 23 | The scene when Nancy had turned up at the Shangri-La guest house must have been terrible . |
| 24 | I liked her from the moment I met her , and I well recall the occasion — I had turned up at their place and she appeared in the yard from the shed carrying buckets of milk . |
| 25 | Lots of other vehicles had turned up at what was , for humans , great speed . |
| 26 | Mr Gay had turned up at her home in Niddrie Marischal Place after a drinking binge , armed with a baton and determined to continue the fight , it was claimed . |
| 27 | Jed had turned up without knowing what he was going to say , but now he knew . |
| 28 | The maths teacher hated Maggie too , because one Parents ' Evening Phoebe had turned up in overalls and working boots . |
| 29 | Curiously enough , there 's even a hint of a good age for Black artists : in the 1950s , before the Notting Hill race riots of 1958 and before the era of public subsidies , when Denis Bowen of the New Vision Centre and Victor Musgrave of Gallery One consistently showed unknown international artists , many of whom had turned up in London in the post-coronation years because they had heard of the Commonwealth . |
| 30 | The sense of his living in a closed world , stylistically speaking , is beautifully conveyed when Falstaff , frustrated in his attempts to get a simple answer to a simple question , wanting to know his ‘ happy news ’ , is forced to move up to Pistol 's manner : — an effect not unlike that if W. C. Fields had turned up in a performance of Mourning Becomes Electra ! |