Example sentences of "turn up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ladies ' timing is impeccable : usually they turn up on the day that social-security cheques are due to arrive in the post . |
| 2 | These visitors , about 42 per cent from overseas , also divide into three categories : those who book far in advance , whose who gain starting times in the daily ballot and the ‘ casuals ’ who haphazardly turn up on the off-chance of being asked to make up a foursome . |
| 3 | I turn up on the set with twenty pages of notes . |
| 4 | And all he had to do was to stay in the sun and turn up on the lot when a suitable — or unsuitable ( he was used to taking the rough with the smooth ) — script came up . |
| 5 | But having left till the morning when she was due , I could n't even let Cathy know because it puts her in an awkward position , suddenly turn up on the day . |
| 6 | So , the perfectionist might be instructed to do something wrong at work , or deliberately blemish their appearance , or turn up to the group five minutes late . |
| 7 | Uncle Buck is the obvious example , but the same can be said about brat pack action movies like Young Guns , family comedies like Parenthood , even blockbuster action like The Abyss double recommended as a trailer because you do n't have to put up with those awful cute aliens that turn up at the end of the film . |
| 8 | Old-fashioned MPs , unlike the new generation who happily turn up at the annual conference , went out of their way to dream up family illnesses , unavoidable business meetings or urgent missions to Kurdistan to avoid these gatherings . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And although hundreds of young hopefuls turn up at the Storm offices in London each year most of Sarah 's ‘ finds ’ are chance encounters . |
| 11 | There will be a welcome for all who turn up at the Wallingford terminus for bumper picnic on Sunday . |
| 12 | Turn up at the editor 's office ( not her Gailness , I assure you ) , demonstrate a new Windows software package to do with health and safety , go away . |
| 13 | Yet , given the opportunity and some imaginative presentation , the urban population has shown that it is capable of responding , judging by the numbers who take an interest at county shows or who turn up at the pitifully few farms which organize public open days . |
| 14 | LENNY KAYE , sometime guitarist and sometime producer , is a man in his 40s with facial lines that turn up at the edges and spell affability . |
| 15 | If somebody if they turn up at the normal time , I assume when though there 's you know we could leave a not a not a notice and they could just go out . |
| 16 | Maggie 's eyes are long and wide like certain nuts , and they turn up at the ends like maidens from Disney . |
| 17 | LENNY KAYE , sometime guitarist and sometime producer , is a man in his 40s with facial lines that turn up at the edges and spell affability . |
| 18 | Every week , around 80 people turn up at the Prestbury Road Handicapped Day Centre in Cheltenham . |
| 19 | Well , I mean , this is important to read this than turn up at the garage . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | they 're talking none about the , the economy and turn up before the end of the year , this , the , the , they 've been hanging on and on and on , and er slagging one another off all the time |
| 22 | Every winter large objects with large surface as get blown over ( or turn up by the roots ) . |
| 23 | WC apps : 8 The Belgians tend to be ignored until they suddenly turn up in the latter stages of major tournaments — the final of the 1980 European Championship and the semi-finals of the last World Cup . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 26 | They always turn up in the nets ! |
| 27 | The committee of six ( nearly all their names turn up in the 1910 sample ) organized a programme which included songs such as " The Old Countree " , and " Flight of Ages " , sung by Misses Forrest and Waugh ; the opportunity to dance quadrilles and waltzes ; and a pianoforte selection by Miss Thomson , who was , like most of the other performers , a compositor . |
| 28 | which turn up in the window seat . |
| 29 | You hate me when I turn up in the sexy German motor , you hate me when I ca n't turn up at all . |