Example sentences of "[noun pl] turn [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 Jack 's last game for the Palace first team was on Easter Saturday , 3 April 1926 , when he helped Palace to a 1–1 draw at Gillingham , but 7,000 fans turned up for his Benefit match at Selhurst Park a little over a year later to show their appreciation of as fine a player as ever wore the Palace colours .
2 More than 40,000 fans turned up for the 12-hour event , Britain 's biggest-ever legal Rave gig .
3 Oldham forward Keith Atkinson , who has broken almost every bone in his body , picked up £6,000 yesterday when 1,588 fans turned up for his testimonial .
4 Wimbledon boss Joe Kinnear after just 1,987 fans turned up for the Coca-Cola match against Bolton
5 Miners turn up for work at Silverhill
6 Sixty fishermen turned out for the competition on Rutland Water , which had opened for the new season only four days earlier , after an initial stocking with 40,000 trout .
7 They had n't expected the terrorists to turn up for at least another two days .
8 My dad blames my mum for the way things turned out for me .
9 Twenty-six teams turned up for the sporting events which included bowls , mixed netball , darts , 5-a-side football and the ever popular It's-a-Knockout and Superstars events .
10 No patients turned up for evening surgery , but , for once , that was not depressing .
11 Jets will have the advantage in terms of cup final experience as four of their players turned out for Telford in last year 's final .
12 Crowds waited outside the venue to catch a glimpse of pop stars turning up for the awards ceremony , being televised on ITV by Carlton tonight .
13 Entire villages turned out for the spectacle and in Györ , the Bishop himself headed the assembled burghers .
14 The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting .
15 When the navvies turn up for their wages on a Friday afternoon after a hard week of digging up roads , try presenting them with a handsome bound volume of Gaelic poetry .
16 Over the years , the numbers turning out for the clash have dwindled and the match is now normally 18 a-side .
17 Few men turned up for work — no Sandy McGlashan , and no Donald McCulloch of course .
18 As BR and union leaders tried to resolve the problem of finding new jobs for the teams , the men turned up for work each day at Liverpool 's Central Station and simply sat in their vans for eight hours a day .
19 Only 17 anglers turned up for Sunday 's Notts AA Open on the Trent at Shelford so a match was organised downstream at East Bridgeford where there was a stunning result .
20 A record number of Guinness pensioners turned out for the annual pensioners ' party at Park Royal this month — almost 1,000 descended on the brewery grounds to remenisce about their lives in the brewery .
21 HUNDREDS of runners turned out for the annual Race The Train cross country event on the Talyllyn Railway on August 15 .
22 The report says percentages of women turning up for screening have also been encouraging .
23 Moreover , children attending school and adults turning up for work inevitably have their liberty restricted : simply because the engagement in one activity necessarily restricts their opportunity to participate in other activities , that is , restriction by effect .
24 Post offices , railway stations and schools had the new , and the rest the old ; in the cottages there was friction as children and their fathers turned up for meals at different times .
25 The 16-year-olds could play for the juniors at the same time as their fathers turn out for the club 's over-35s team in a national competition .
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