Example sentences of "have [verb] up at a [noun] " 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 | A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds . |
| 3 | He 'd woken up at a quarter past four that morning to find Lavinia awake beside him , as often she was now in the middle of the night . |
| 4 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 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 route we had taken through the cordillera from Cajamarca had brought us virtually into the outskirts of Tmjillo and we had put up at a hotel in the centre of the city , all three of us more or less out on our feet . |
| 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 . |