Example sentences of "turned up at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 3 | He wore a tight khaki shirt , buttoned at the neck , and threadbare army denims turned up at the bottom . |
| 4 | Then on Wednesday , hearses from two funeral companies turned up at the morgue to claim the body . |
| 5 | She turned up at the Café Dôme one night , her beautiful dress torn to shreds . |
| 6 | Women with stiff-brimmed panama hats turned up at the side and pinned with giant rosettes . |
| 7 | Their talent for self-promotion ensured that many people turned up at the Ritz to witness the intriguing spectacle of The Smiths falling on their collective backsides . |
| 8 | Everyone turned up at the 42nd Street Theatre that night to see Noreen make her New York debut . |
| 9 | James turned up at the docks expecting a luxury liner , only to find a cargo ship and a deck-hand 's job waiting for him . |
| 10 | My brother , now himself in the RAF , turned up at the door of the Met Office one morning , announcing that he had been posted to Bourn . |
| 11 | That afternoon two more carcasses turned up at the northern end of Butterwick Low , and another two were reported from the Norfolk coast , close to Cromer . |
| 12 | A stream of visitors turned up at the camp . |
| 13 | Thank God , I thought , as just then Dad turned up at the party . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | He had a pale face , deep blue eyes , hair darker and straighter than hers , and a mouth which curved and turned up at the corners in an almost feminine way . |
| 16 | Some of Barnet 's players did n't know about Fry 's Friday night re-instatement until they turned up at the ground . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 20 | He arrived at 1.30am on the first day , slept for a few hours and turned up at the clubhouse to find he was in the field . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It would be easy enough ( in theory ) to get money for Everest or K2 , but if Mick and Vic turned up at the doors of a giant multi-national with the word ‘ Ultar ’ on their portfolio , they might well be shown the corporate door . |
| 23 | It just so happened that Mandy turned up at the afternoon surgery . |
| 24 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
| 25 | Mr Smith said : ‘ I cried when they turned up at the frontier . |
| 26 | It was the next day that Lewis turned up at the door of the workshop his tools in a bag and his leather apron over his arm . |
| 27 | He wore a leather beret to conceal his black hair , tinted wrap-around glasses and a coat turned up at the collar which masked the lower half of his face . |
| 28 | Clad in a heavy military-style trench coat , turned up at the collar , he had a waterproof hat rammed down over his forehead . |
| 29 | He was n't the prettiest sight you would see on a golf course but , since he always turned up at the practice ground the following morning more or less on time and more or less clean-shaven , it was obvious that he patronised his own circuit of cheap guesthouses . |
| 30 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |