Example sentences of "turn up [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With two brothers , he had turned up with a cash bid for House of Fraser . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ? |
| 5 | I thought my form had been good enough throughout the year to warrant selection , but there is always that niggling doubt , especially as I had angered Frank Dick by not turning up for a relay practice at Loughborough where he was engaged in running the annual Summer School for athletics . |
| 6 | Hundreds were able to pay their respects and express their condolences by turning up at a charity rugby match at Shiplake College , Berkshire , in aid of the Charlotte Starmer-Smith Memorial Fund which aims to purchase medical equipment for the treatment of blood diseases . |
| 7 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |
| 8 | In the qualifying stages they were drawn against Finland and Norway and staggered unconvincingly towards the finals , after only 13 members of the pool turned up for a training session at Ayr before the vital away match in Oslo . |
| 9 | The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting . |
| 10 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |
| 11 | HUNDREDS of young fans were left disappointed after they turned up at a video store to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger and found a lookalike instead . |
| 12 | Even John Major , who is a friend of Wigley 's , turned up at a Plaid party a few years ago . |
| 13 | On occasion , so many people turned up to a Baldersdale funeral and the church or chapel became so crowded that people had to stand outside . |
| 14 | In 1959 Dean Martin turned up in a Sinatra film , Some Come Running , having been wandering in the Hollywood wilderness since breaking up with his former screen buddy Jerry Lewis . |
| 15 | Corporal Philip Ainsworth and Lance Corporal Andrew Zolden turned up in a 27-tonne Foden six-wheeler capable of hauling a light battle tank with its remote-control crane . |
| 16 | A well-known alcoholic who unexpectedly turns up at a cocktail party may inadvertently communicate the fact that his sessions with AA have given him newfound confidence in his self-control . |
| 17 | Thus in the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic , the distinctive genus Flabellothyris turns up along a belt parallel to the present equator ( for example , in Mexico , Morocco and India ) and not to the north or south . |
| 18 | A former Grand National jockey charged with burglary and deception has failed to turn up for a court appearance . |
| 19 | It was just one of those things that happened to even the nicest people , and the sensible thing to do about it was pay £25 and turn up at a London hotel for a glass of sherry and an implicit promise of no humiliation if things did n't work out . |
| 20 | Mind you , not many Mormons would turn up at a Barbican flat at 7.30 clutching two bottles of wine . |