Example sentences of "[vb mod] turn [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | People must turn up at the proverbial factory gates fresh , fit and ready to toil . |
| 2 | It was a perpetual anxiety with me that I should turn up at school wearing a dress that had been sold to that same shop by one of my fellow-pupils . |
| 3 | Another worry for the police is the possibility of a confrontation between New Age travellers who might turn up at Stow , the traditional travellers want to make it plain that if they do , they will not be made welcome . |
| 4 | Another worry for the police is the possibility of a confrontation between New Age travellers who might turn up at Stow , the traditional travellers want to make it plain that if they do , they will not be made welcome . |
| 5 | Her dreams had saved lives time and again : she 'd turn up at someone 's door whatever the hour , her and her huge handbag packed with tinctures and lotions and bandages . |
| 6 | ‘ I sometimes think now , Oh gawd , I must have really looked like a schlepp when I used to turn up at Motown or somewhere taking a punk rocky attitude with me . |
| 7 | He would turn up at her garden with a picnic in the late afternoons , laying out a white cloth , champagne and strawberries under the shadow of the tower block and the bemused scrutiny of the local youth . |
| 8 | When it was wet she would turn up at the cafés with galoshes . |
| 9 | Within 15 minutes or so , Alan Fordham would turn up at the commentary box , ready to resume discussion on the latest of the batch of modern drama texts through which he was picking his way . |
| 10 | He would turn up at the Gloucester and Cheltenham festivals , eager to discuss writing projects and agonising over a contracting market . |
| 11 | There were hopes that his wife , Whitney Houston , would turn up at his date in London 's Wembley Arena next month for a guest spot . |
| 12 | Mind you , not many Mormons would turn up at a Barbican flat at 7.30 clutching two bottles of wine . |
| 13 | ‘ If those two English lads from Northallerton will turn up at the pics ? |
| 14 | The Jot 1.0 specification is designed to enable applications to share handwritten notes , sketches , signatures and other free-form data across the generality of computers from hand-held devices to mainframes , so that if someone scrawls a note and sends it over a modem , it will turn up at the other end as handwriting , regardless of the sending and receiving machines , provided only that they both implement Jot 1.0 . |
| 15 | The once-great Computer Systems News , which had to suffer the indignity in its declining months of being called Systems and Network Integration , gives up the ghost this week but not before it reports that IBM will turn up at AutoFacts in November with a new-fangled massively parallel machine that runs both AIX/ES and MVS and is based on a new ( possibly hybrid ) chip developed at the Thomas Watson Lab . |
| 16 | Today JR will turn up at the Borders roads committee meeting in a Pringle of Scotland creation , complete with Saltire design , as worn by the golfer Colin Montgomerie at last year 's Scottish Open . |
| 17 | And he may turn up at any moment with a simple explanation , and wonder what we 've been worrying about . ’ |