Example sentences of "have turn up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale . |
| 2 | The sheets are reported to have turned up inside a frame offered for sale in a provincial Sunday flea market outside Paris . |
| 3 | With two brothers , he had turned up with a cash bid for House of Fraser . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | I am aware of agency nurses who have turned up at a hospital expecting to work on a ward caring for elderly people , only to be sent to work in the intensive care unit . |