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 . |