Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] turned [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Positive thinking will have to wait a while , but it augurs well for one of the young ringsiders who turned up in his smartest suit and said : ‘ What a disgusting fight ; I wish I 'd worn my tracksuit . ’ |
| 2 | Ronald Richter , aged 42 , was a little-known Austrian-born physicist , one of many German-speaking scientists and technicians who turned up in Argentina in the late 1940s . |
| 3 | Might have been more restful than running round like a lunatic stuffing pâté de foie gras into the undeserving old ghouls who turned up in their dozens today . ’ |
| 4 | On the night I turned up in my red leotard and dippy skirt with a heavier than usual coat of paint on , to find , to my horror , that Cleo Roccas of Kenny Everett fame and a young lady much featured on Page 3 , called Gilly , I think , were already up on the stage , surrounded by a sixty-strong swarm of Street of Shame photographers , all climbing up each other 's anoraks and screaming ‘ Lean forward , Cleo — a bit further , give us a smile , lick your lips , Gilly — lovely , lovely — hitch that skirt up a bit … ’ |
| 5 | The X-Windows technology industry was worth $820m in 1992 , up 60% from the $510m it turned over in 1991 , according to a report by Fremont , California-based X Business Group . |
| 6 | As Arthur Emyr , the former Welsh winger who turned out in the Classics International on Saturday morning stated afterwards . |
| 7 | The ‘ Blanco script ’ — with its romance , riddles and emotion — captured the imagination of the public who turned up in their thousands to bid him farewell in his first and last Championship final . |
| 8 | WHETHER you are a punter or just love horses you ca n't ignore point-to-point racing and down Ballymena way they turned out in force for last weekend 's Mid-Antrim Hunt meeting at Galgorm . |
| 9 | The following year he turned over in his sleep and crashed his leg onto my hipbone . |