Example sentences of "turn up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason why timekeeping was particularly bad on Tuesdays , Wednesdays and Thursdays , when employees did turn up for work , was because the buses were so unreliable . |
| 2 | If we do not turn up for work , we are likely to get the sack , but in our private worlds we can dream our lives away at home , church or play . |
| 3 | I think when we were , as far as I can remember is when we were sent either letters of , letters to warn us that we were gon na be dismissed if we did n't turn up for work or either when we were dismissed . |
| 4 | The UCW believes the rounds of postmen who do not turn up for work will not be covered by overtime . |
| 5 | The strikers did turn up for work yesterday morning but found the gates locked . |
| 6 | Willi often did turn up for rehearsals , had often done so . |
| 7 | I just do n't turn up for lectures that often . |
| 8 | Does n't turn up for appointments . |
| 9 | Anyone wishing to join the Liss club and perhaps start training now for next year 's race should just turn up for training on Wednesday evenings ( 7 p.m. ) and Sunday mornings ( 9.30 a.m . ) . |
| 10 | They did not turn up for sessions they considered boring and did not meet their needs . |
| 11 | When Louis summoned , exceptionally , a third assembly in the same year , at Thionville , Pippin failed to appear ; and when he did turn up for Christmas at Aachen , there was a family row . |
| 12 | It did n't turn up for practice and so many questions were asked that the race organisers pinned a notice on the control room window saying : ‘ We have NO news of the BRM . ’ |
| 13 | Now I just do n't think that 's rea realistic , that 's different from saying you may have a bail system , cos that 's what I thought you were suggesting and for people to b come into the ring as pension fund managers , they would have to perhaps to put up securities of a million pounds each to o operate in this area and that if they behave badly , if funds went missing , if it was proved they were negligent , they would lose their million pounds bail , just as people lose bail when they do n't turn up to court . |
| 14 | ‘ I made an awful lot of money and I was still a reporter with The Northern ‘ I remember I would turn up to journalists ’ union meetings wearing a Walls ice cream coat . ’ |
| 15 | But no amount of tinkering with parental choice or national testing alters one main problem : many young black children do not even turn up to classes . |
| 16 | Erm used to go down to weddings , at the register office on a Saturday morning , and hope that they 'd turn up without witnesses , because then you had to be compensated , , for giving your service . |
| 17 | Anyway , do turn up at Forrester School on 30 September , bringing any friends you think might Medau too , and we shall see what can be managed . |
| 18 | It had various elements : detention upon arrest should only continue if the person was unwilling to identify himself or herself ; or if there was a likelihood that he or she would not turn up at court ; or if there was a need to prevent the continuation or repetition of the offence ; or if the arrest was essential to protect the arrested person or other persons or property or to secure evidence by questioning or other means . |
| 19 | My only regret is that he did n't turn up at court to watch his Pyrrhic victory . |
| 20 | But he did n't turn up at Stansted airport . |
| 21 | Mercifully he did n't turn up at home . |
| 22 | It was a perpetual anxiety with me that I should turn up at school wearing a dress that had been sold to that same shop by one of my fellow-pupils . |
| 23 | The next morning she did not turn up at school . |
| 24 | But do n't turn up at Oxford 's Ice Rink on Sunday ; their game 's been cancelled . |
| 25 | ‘ Wonder why she did n't turn up at Paddington . ’ |
| 26 | Another worry for the police is the possibility of a confrontation between New Age travellers who might turn up at Stow , the traditional travellers want to make it plain that if they do , they will not be made welcome . |
| 27 | Another worry for the police is the possibility of a confrontation between New Age travellers who might turn up at Stow , the traditional travellers want to make it plain that if they do , they will not be made welcome . |
| 28 | The once-great Computer Systems News , which had to suffer the indignity in its declining months of being called Systems and Network Integration , gives up the ghost this week but not before it reports that IBM will turn up at AutoFacts in November with a new-fangled massively parallel machine that runs both AIX/ES and MVS and is based on a new ( possibly hybrid ) chip developed at the Thomas Watson Lab . |
| 29 | May I just say that the majority of people will care for their animals but it is those people who buy , we have s er cases where erm people will turn up on Christmas day and say to their elderly relative , We bought you a puppy . |
| 30 | Do you think she 'll turn up on Monday ? |