Example sentences of "turn up [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The director general of the Building Societies Association , Mark Boleat , said the rise was encouraging and supported the reports from housebuilders and estate agents that the market had turned up since the beginning of the year . |
2 | A friend of mine suggests this is because my system is all transistor rather than valves , but the processor and power amp both sound fine when the volume of each is turned up with the volume of the other turned down . |
3 | At times the supporting leg would bend when on balance , whilst the working one was also bent with the foot turned up at the ankle during certain poses , or when performing a rond de jambe en dehors or en dedans during the pas de deux . |
4 | It is significant that Phil Weston , with his imposing England Under-19 cv , has turned up as an opener alongside Curtis . |
5 | These funny-looking blokes just turned up on the doorstep with rolls of carpet over their shoulders asking if we wanted to buy them . |
6 | Even fate appeared to be on our side : when the review copy of Madstock finally turned up on the morning of the interview , your hack managed to catch a full five seconds of guitarist Chris Foreman wandering across the park before the VHS started eating the tape . |
7 | Fatty : We could have turned up to the disco in these ! |
8 | Up to 20 of the bogus MOT certificates have turned up across the province in the last year , prompting a major investigation by detectives . |
9 | IT will be a great relief to Abi King at the Arts Theatre if the props she needs for a new play can be turned up by the public at large . |
10 | 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 ! |
11 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
12 | She noted , however , that cotenine , a substance that the body can break down only from nicotine , has turned up in the semen of smokers . |
13 | She does n't fancy turning up to the supermarket in it ! |
14 | A number of unused tickets , from not only the BCR have been turning up with a date in the year 1933 . |
15 | Will home helps start turning up with a set of clubs ? |
16 | One day he excelled himself , turning up with a piece of furniture the size of a large sideboard which housed the coveted television set along with a radiogram and a place to keep your records . |
17 | What they do n't like is turning up at the House of Commons and having to do some work , because they ca n't stand the pressure . |
18 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
19 | Apparently , Fagg turned up as the protégé of one Captain Fanning of the Pioneer Corps , an Irish member of ffeatherstonehaugh 's whom Gooseneck remembers as an occasional visitor and noted practical joker . |
20 | Vera turned up for a cup of coffee dinner time and ended up staying there rest of the afternoon dinner with us , oh no come on in , give us it , where you sitting , off she went |
21 | THE audience that turned up for the recital of British violin sonatas was scarcely more than a sprinkling , which made one despair of our unadventurous public . |
22 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
23 | FIREMEN and police turned up at a house in Bracknell , Herts , with sirens blaring after Nibbles the hamster became trapped under the bath . |
24 | STUNNED staff turned up at a garage in Chicklade , Wilts , to find thieves had used a chainsaw to cut off and steal a petrol pump . |
25 | 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 . |
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 | The dog , after lapping a little water , went and sat down heavily beside him , eyes turned up at the portrait of itself thoughtfully , perhaps making a critical assessment of it . |
28 | A lip turned up at the towel in her hair , as if he was remembering that first time they 'd seen each other , but the quirk of that lip was cruel . |
29 | He turned up at the game with his head shaven , Gazza style , to raise money for a children 's cancer charity as part of Friday 's Comic Relief day . |
30 | The man posed as a gas board official when he turned up at the restaurant in Tarrant Street , Arundel , Sussex . |