Example sentences of "[noun] turn up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |
| 2 | Clearly , however , where the overall number of speakers is small as it is in many sociolinguistic surveys , the number of higher-status speakers turning up in a random selection procedure which samples from the entire urban area will be correspondingly small . |
| 3 | His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery . |
| 4 | She looked down at her new French muslin pyjamas , the corners of her thin lips turning up in a rueful smile , wondering if the whisky stains would come out — and deciding that they probably would n't . |
| 5 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 6 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 7 | His lips turned up in a self-satisfied smile . |
| 8 | His lips turned up in a terrible parody of a smile . |
| 9 | And even if Uncle Alan turns up within a month or two , he can hardly complain . |
| 10 | There was also Alec , a prison officer from Wormwood Scrubs ( when he 'd given his address and next of kin on a previous camp everyone had thought he was kidding ) ; Ken , who to everyone 's delight turned up with a guitar ( were we really going to sit round a campfire singing ? ) ; and David , an aircraft engineer who after fifteen years in the Scouts could ‘ do wonderful things with ropes ’ . |
| 11 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 12 | In 1959 Dean Martin turned up in a Sinatra film , Some Come Running , having been wandering in the Hollywood wilderness since breaking up with his former screen buddy Jerry Lewis . |
| 13 | And Gordon 's use of the melodramatic ( a vital dose of vanishingly scarce penicillin to treat a key character turns up at a crucial time ) is disappointing alongside the excellence of his writing elsewhere . |
| 14 | When a television crew turns up for a tour of his house and DIY achievements , everything falls apart as he touches it . |
| 15 | Then , late in the evening , my new friend turned up with a little white pill for each of us . |
| 16 | Mrs Hancock turned up in a Rolls-Royce after announcing she had organised a requiem mass at Perth 's St Mary 's Cathedral on Friday . |
| 17 | On occasion , so many people turned up to a Baldersdale funeral and the church or chapel became so crowded that people had to stand outside . |
| 18 | Only about 60 people turned up to a recent candle-lit vigil outside Orsett hospital supposedly a protest against trust status being given . |
| 19 | ONLY four people turned up at a public meeting in Machynlleth to finalise arrangements for the town 's summer play scheme for local schoolchildren . |
| 20 | He was n't allowed to work that day , so people turned up in a white shirt and tie and looking smart , they had to wear uniforms even a cap but unfortunately nowadays , although a lot of the I have seen quite a few people their uniform has changed since I left , but erm they do come to work in very very casual work now . |
| 21 | Vera turned up for a cup of coffee dinner time and ended up staying there rest of the afternoon dinner with us , oh no come on in , give us it , where you sitting , off she went |
| 22 | Corporal Philip Ainsworth and Lance Corporal Andrew Zolden turned up in a 27-tonne Foden six-wheeler capable of hauling a light battle tank with its remote-control crane . |
| 23 | STUNNED staff turned up at a garage in Chicklade , Wilts , to find thieves had used a chainsaw to cut off and steal a petrol pump . |
| 24 | The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting . |
| 25 | Thus in the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic , the distinctive genus Flabellothyris turns up along a belt parallel to the present equator ( for example , in Mexico , Morocco and India ) and not to the north or south . |
| 26 | FIREMEN and police turned up at a house in Bracknell , Herts , with sirens blaring after Nibbles the hamster became trapped under the bath . |
| 27 | In the qualifying stages they were drawn against Finland and Norway and staggered unconvincingly towards the finals , after only 13 members of the pool turned up for a training session at Ayr before the vital away match in Oslo . |
| 28 | They were fascinated by the arrivals : Peter Fonda turned up in a huge sheepskin coat and carrying an ivory-handled .44–40 , which had once belonged to Tom Mix . |
| 29 | I studied piano , too , then trombone , but it was n't until someone at school turned up with a guitar which had been ‘ converted ’ into a bass that I really thought about the instrument . |
| 30 | Oh she borrowed it , and a bonnet and a white flowers an all and Joan turned up like a a twenty five year old Victorian fashion model you should have seen her ! |