Example sentences of "turn up [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had held a site meeting on Thursday and he had turned up instead of the committee chairman they were expecting . |
| 2 | There was something rather eerie about people turning up unexpectedly around the door and starting to sing . |
| 3 | I do n't want you turning up late for the shop tomorrow morning . |
| 4 | It must have been a shock , her turning up out of the blue like that . |
| 5 | One family from Rouen , a couple with their young daughter , turned up here in the village . |
| 6 | Every head turned up automatically at the sound of the furnace engine . |
| 7 | Rigby was surprised when Gedge turned up beforehand at the town 's Tesco stores where she had a Saturday job . |
| 8 | Hundreds of car enthusiasts turned up today for the South Lincolnshire Motor Show . |
| 9 | And as I walk back through the streets the other thing fuelling this self-criticism is that I turned up there with the gun . |
| 10 | After a while , the lad turned up back at the farm and offered to work for two shillings and pay his own insurance stamp . |
| 11 | My father , old but gritty , glamorous in the eyes of the class of '68 , a South London wide boy with an authentic background , described his grandfather 's funeral , about 1912 , when a whole other family , wife , children , grandchildren , turned up out of the blue from somewhere further down the line where they 'd been established on the navvy 's journey north . |
| 12 | As this turns up later in the memoir , I need only report that , out of dissatisfaction , I scrapped the manuscript more than once , and therefore I did not show it to Eliot just then . |
| 13 | ‘ I bet what happened was , just after you called him , this witch turns up out of the blue . ’ |
| 14 | When he turns up back at the flat , he has a bunch of red gladioli . |
| 15 | In his absence she 'd been as nervy as a wildcat , jumping a mile every time someone spoke to her or touched her on the shoulder , expecting him to turn up out of the blue as he 'd made a habit of doing . |
| 16 | You turn up out of the blue with some cock and bull story |
| 17 | But you never know , something may turn up later in the year . |