Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] turn up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 2 | But as time went on and techniques advanced , they found that peculiar sorts of molecules turned up , rather unusual ones , things that were n't expected — molecules that are very uncommon on the earth and in fact a number of molecules were discovered in interstellar space before they were discovered in the laboratory . |
| 3 | After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m . |
| 4 | For months afterwards copies of forms turned up all over the Manchester office . |
| 5 | The Cheetahs lost 47 to 43 at Bellevue over the weekend , but despite that defeat hundreds of supporters turned up to see world cup er world champion Hans Nielsen in training last night relieved and smiling that their hero was staying in Oxford . |
| 6 | A stream of visitors turned up at the camp . |
| 7 | Hundreds of buyers turn up to take their pick of the best of the County breed . |
| 8 | We know that the syntactic rules of SSL turn up in their written Swedish and so by analogy , children who grow up with Signed Swedish should instead be influenced to use the correct word order . |
| 9 | It 's a busy lunchtime at the Glass Pig in Tarrington near Hereford , as a minibus full of customers turns up . |
| 10 | Later the same day Douglas , Duke of Hamilton — frustrated past belief turned up at the Foreign Office in London and informed them that he was seeking an urgent audience with the King . |
| 11 | ‘ You mean lots of people turning up ? ’ |
| 12 | Plenty of people turned up , including Mark Lennox Boyd , one of the influential and able new generation of Conservatives , and MP for ITE Merlewood , the Father of the House , John Parker , who has been campaigning on the environment and forestry since 1935 , and a Green troika of David Clark , Opposition spokesman on environment , Peter Hardy , author of a book on badgers , and chairman of the Council of Europe Agricultural Committee , and me . |
| 13 | I was invited to open functions in various parts of the Yorkshire Dales and quite a surprising number of people turned up . |
| 14 | And although scores of people turned up looking for a pet , new waifs were being brought in almost as quickly . |
| 15 | There were 9 separate incidents in Oxford on saturday night and crowds of people turned up on the Blackbird Leys estate and in Rosehill to watch the stolen car displays . |
| 16 | There were 9 separate incidents in Oxford on saturday night and crowds of people turned up on the Blackbird Leys estate and in Rosehill to watch the stolen car displays . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're simply disappointed to see this kind of attack turn up in Li Peng 's work report , ’ British Embassy spokeswoman Janet Rogan said after the speech . |
| 18 | He had long deplored the grand opera house tradition of stars turning up to slot into ready-rehearsed productions , and recalled the awful theatre tale of a famous Lear/Hamlet/Othello turning up to greet a cast of strangers , saying ‘ Whatever you do , do n't get in my way … ‘ |
| 19 | Indeed , the governments of the region seem quite ungrateful when the well-meaning secretary of state turns up on their doorsteps . |
| 20 | Thousands of travellers turned up , and although police say the weekend went well , there were complaints of noise , drug abuse and a lack of police presence . |
| 21 | According to many accounts , middle-class complacency was severely shocked by the evidence of the children 's condition : in Newcastle , for example , of 31,000 children registering for evacuation , 13% were found to be deficient in footwear and 21 % deficient in clothing ; in Scotland , 39% of children turned up in clothing that was ‘ bad or deplorable ’ . |
| 22 | Consequently , the last line of his life parroted the last line of his masterpiece : at his funeral a picket of soldiers turned up to fire a volley over the coffin , and thus bid the state 's traditional farewell to one of its most improbable and sardonic chevaliers . |
| 23 | In 1975 , the year after the fall of Haile Selassie , and four years before the fall of the Shah , the witness of revolutions turned up in Angola for the abandonment of their colony by the Portuguese : the subject of the third of these books of his . |
| 24 | The report says percentages of women turning up for screening have also been encouraging . |
| 25 | The result was so spectacular that those of us in the front line who were showered with debris turned up at future games wearing motorbike goggles to protect our eyes and in honour of our hero . |
| 26 | Outside an elevated railroad station men in raincoats with collars turned up and hats with brims snapped down bustled busily , coming from and going to nowhere in particular . |
| 27 | Outraged by the police action , Scargill appeared on news bulletins later that day , calling for reinforcements to turn up and emulate the closure of Saltley . |
| 28 | There was something rather eerie about people turning up unexpectedly around the door and starting to sing . |
| 29 | Suddenly one of the best-known bandits in existence turns up , parks nearer us , and starts giving unknowing grins . |
| 30 | Additional material from Theodore turns up in other Irish manuscripts , dating from the eighth century , the ninth century and , in one case , from the late tenth century — more than four hundred years after Theodore was condemned . |