Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [pron] turn up " in BNC.

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1 AN aerobics teacher who turned up safe after a major search is to be prosecuted for wasting police time , a police spokesman said yesterday .
2 Well how about we prepare something , the sort of thing that I can photocopy ad nauseam and give round er conference guests who turn up , for example , which says you know something like , please help , we are doing linguistic research , we want to make recordings ,
3 After his first phone call he turned up at Lynsey 's north London home only hours later .
4 First — the lump sums which turn up regularly such as mortgage , community charge , fuel and water bills , car tax and insurances .
5 He was scornful , too , of the humanitarian-aid programme run for the contras by the State Department through the NHAO , which Owen familiarly called the ‘ no-way , no-how ’ and the ‘ no-hope programme ’ ; the State Department itself turned up on local code-sheets as ‘ wimps ’ , the CIA as ‘ assholes ’ , the portly Shultz as ‘ Nancy ’ .
6 If the number of fire engines which turned up was correlated with the amount of damage done at those fires , a positive relationship would probably be discovered .
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