Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] turn up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That 's alright , I 'll turn up like this then |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I made an awful lot of money and I was still a reporter with The Northern ‘ I remember I would turn up to journalists ’ union meetings wearing a Walls ice cream coat . ’ |
| 5 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 6 | Do you think she 'll turn up on Monday ? |
| 7 | Dana has missed a few fittings , but the earth wo n't stop turning and I 'm sure she 'll turn up for the next one . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When it was wet she would turn up at the cafés with galoshes . |
| 10 | He stood back in the street , the rain stinging his eyes , wetting him to the skin , getting in his mouth and eyes ; warm rain , huge hard drops , slicking and sticking the clothes to his body ; erotic , making his heart beat faster in a sudden , squally sexual fantasy ; she would invite him in … no , better yet , she would turn up in the street , having been out , also wet to the skin , she would look at him … they would go in … |
| 11 | You can turn up on the night if you want |
| 12 | At least you can turn up with a sheet . |
| 13 | They may turn up in a show of force in the Market Square . ’ |
| 14 | They might turn up on time and do all the right things , or they might not . |
| 15 | Erm used to go down to weddings , at the register office on a Saturday morning , and hope that they 'd turn up without witnesses , because then you had to be compensated , , for giving your service . |
| 16 | I had no doubt they 'd turn up within a short time , so I went off duty . |
| 17 | And he may turn up at any moment with a simple explanation , and wonder what we 've been worrying about . ’ |
| 18 | He 'll turn up with a three course meal for as many as you care to name and serve it in the comfort of your semi . |
| 19 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |
| 20 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |
| 21 | Banned from the dressingroom areas and the touchline , he could turn up in any number of disguises from hot-pie salesman to unhelpful steward . |
| 22 | It was quite easy , for she was standing at the front of the Council House talking to a large policeman and when Dad and I reached them he said , ‘ There you are Mrs. Maidment , I knew he 'd turn up like a bad penny ! ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He would turn up at the Gloucester and Cheltenham festivals , eager to discuss writing projects and agonising over a contracting market . |
| 25 | At six-thirty he would turn up with a large jug of the club cocktail , for it was a tradition that committee meetings ended with a toast to the club in its own tipple . |
| 26 | He would turn up in the Primary School playground and call , ‘ Hi there , Nick ! ’ as if Nick was a boy the same age . |
| 27 | 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 . |