Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] turn [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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1 | The strikers did turn up for work yesterday morning but found the gates locked . |
2 | There was some muttering among officials after the game that only nine players had turned up for training on Tuesday , but despite the defeat coach Bruce Liddle remained cheerfully optimistic . |
3 | The occasion is the 25th birthday of the U-K owners club and around half of its 1,300 active members have turned up for the celebrations at Silverstone . |
4 | When employees fail to turn up for work today , it can often cause huge management headaches , particularly in labour intensive industries where absence may require reallocation of production line work and potential bottlenecks in the system . |
5 | The reason why timekeeping was particularly bad on Tuesdays , Wednesdays and Thursdays , when employees did turn up for work , was because the buses were so unreliable . |