Example sentences of "[pers pn] turn up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not long after that blow to the ego , I turned up at a studio to do a commercial . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 5 | ‘ I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine . |
| 6 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |
| 7 | ‘ I turned up for the interview , amid all these Bond beauties , in my tight black jersey dress on a really hot day , with false nails and false eyelashes sliding down my face , ’ Julie recalls with a smile . |
| 8 | Obviously there has to be ‘ give and take ’ on both sides ; for example , I would not expect to be guaranteed a space for the cycle if I turned up without a reservation . |
| 9 | She wrote to him quite sharply , not caring who read her letter , that : — it is impossible for me to post a gun as you ought to know you foolish man for what would the post office officials think were I to turn up with a gun to send ? |
| 10 | I turn up on the set with twenty pages of notes . |
| 11 | There were a lot of very nasty people around , then as now , and if one of them turned up in no condition for a party , lying on the towpath , there was no questions asked . ’ |
| 12 | Although she turns up for the interview her customary peaked-capped urchin self , she is worried that her feminist interpreters will consider her video a sell-out . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She turned up at the Café Dôme one night , her beautiful dress torn to shreds . |
| 15 | ‘ But that night you turned up at the farmhouse , you said … ’ |
| 16 | I know that some people look a bit surprised if you turn up with a bottle , but others are disappointed if you do n't . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | And I warn you , if any of my designs or anything like them turn up in the showroom at the House of Oliver I shall sue — and win the sort of damages that will put your little friend out of business for good . |
| 19 | Now going back to this handicraft , although I said I really did n't want to be committed to all the meetings , I 'm quite happy to carry on with the handicraft , providing you do n't expect me to turn up at every meeting . |
| 20 | And that , as long as they did n't expect me to turn up to every committee meeting . |
| 21 | Kylie and her new Svengali Blamey got an instant glimpse of that arrogance when they turned up on the doorstep of the Hit Factory . |
| 22 | HUNDREDS of young fans were left disappointed after they turned up at a video store to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger and found a lookalike instead . |
| 23 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
| 24 | Some of Barnet 's players did n't know about Fry 's Friday night re-instatement until they turned up at the ground . |
| 25 | Mr Smith said : ‘ I cried when they turned up at the frontier . |
| 26 | More than 50 business men and women showed their incredible resolve when they turned up for an emergency meeting in Craigavon yesterday . |
| 27 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 28 | The ladies ' timing is impeccable : usually they turn up on the day that social-security cheques are due to arrive in the post . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It turns up as a footnote in every textbook and training manual . |