Example sentences of "[num] [noun] turn up " 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 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 3 | Wimbledon boss Joe Kinnear after just 1,987 fans turned up for the Coca-Cola match against Bolton |
| 4 | It was the match against Gillingham ( 4–1 ) on 5 March — 12,000 fans turned up , the band played ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ and Ted kicked off for us , even though a persistent injury prevented him from playing after New Year 's Day . |
| 5 | More than 300,000 people turned up . |
| 6 | When you are all up and going they are all for it , but then you arrange a meeting and only six people turn up . ’ |
| 7 | And then just as you were about to eat that another six people turned up so there were twelve altogether and you 'd have to shar share that |
| 8 | This resulted in six people turning up on my doorstep at three in the morning |
| 9 | Over 100 members turned up to compete for the honour of representing Limerick Area in the National Finals in Belfast . |
| 10 | Only nineteen competitors turned up . |
| 11 | And they had three wagons turn up . |
| 12 | The teach-in organisers reckoned that if a dozen people turned up it would be worthwhile . |
| 13 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 14 | They put up a prize at the awards ceremony they 're prepared to do all the art work for nothing or at cost price for the awards ceremony they laid on this evening for us now if three people turn up at their evening they gon na say as we putting our money in the right organisation |
| 15 | In the end I think three people turned up . |
| 16 | It was a great disappointment to me that when having set it up with an invitation couple or three years ago , about three members turned up , and I think that was very regrettable . |
| 17 | When she recently appeared at a New York department store to promote a scent , over 5,000 people turned up to catch a precious glimpse of her in the flesh . |
| 18 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 19 | Every week , around 80 people turn up at the Prestbury Road Handicapped Day Centre in Cheltenham . |
| 20 | Only 11 people turned up but the football team-sized audience asked for an encore and Charman summed it up as ‘ Good . ’ |
| 21 | On the first day of work , sixteen volunteers turned up . |
| 22 | Thirty thousand spectators turned up at Lillie Bridge in London to see him run the mile against William Cummings of Paisley and in the return match George 's time of 4 min. 12.75 sec. was not beaten in Britain for forty-nine years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | With 52 cards to turn up , the combinations are practically inexhaustible . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , violence outside the Grunwick works rapidly escalated , culminating in a so-called ‘ day of action ’ ( 11 July 1977 ) when about 18,000 people turned up to picket and there was much fighting with the police , resulting in seventy arrests and several injuries . |
| 26 | This time about 120 people turned up , mainly business and professional people , clergy , trade-unionists and political leaders . |
| 27 | It started nineteen seventy one or seventy two , it must have been , when my predecessor and I were sat down , and we said what about a band , they all said , what band , well let's have a band , and and it started just like that , and we , we managed to get the whole of the brigade alerted to it , and we had a meeting at headquarters , to which about forty or fifty people turned up , of which two had probably blown a an instrument in the past , and there was enough enthusiasm to learn and we had a , a chap who was a musical teacher in town who was would happily teach our people you see and so we went out , we had a penny , with no help from the authority or anybody else and we got every type of brass instrument for a band on tick and we said we 'd pay for it , and er |
| 28 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 29 | He got together a serious amount of cash and called a meeting with the skaters to ask them what they wanted ; 3 skaters turned up . |
| 30 | George Underwood designed the poster and 50 people turned up . |