Example sentences of "[noun] turned [adv prt] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery .
2 Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door .
3 The victims were crushed to death when the coach turned over in the air and smashed into the ground roof downwards .
4 Patrick turned over in the bed , and discovered that there was a fire burning in the grate and a breakfast tray on the small side-table beside the bed .
5 We found one part of the delivery bed in the labour ward but the other part turned up in the children 's ward .
6 As you probably know , Eddi turned up in the TV series Your Cheatin' Heart , not so long back , doing her joint vocal and thespian thing .
7 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 .
8 She looked aghast , tried to defend her view and then grew apologetic saying that newspaper offices were n't like others , the most extraordinary things turned up in the post all the time and it was reflex to laugh them off and throw them away .
9 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 .
10 However , the Canadian who stole the stuff turned up in the middle of the night with a revolver , took all the money my father had , and made him unload the entire cargo .
11 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 .
12 Thousands of demonstrators turned out in the streets of Bratislava last night in what was said to be the biggest demonstration there in decades .
13 Thousands of demonstrators turned out in the streets of Bratislava last night in what was said to be the biggest demonstration there in decades .
14 Suddenly the Yeti turned up in the men 's department where I worked .
15 And when the Captain-General and his men turned up in the afternoon — all in polished armour , and bearing a gaudy new flag adorned with the arms of Castile and Leon and a Madonna and Child — they were dismayed ? embarrassed ? horrified ? amused ? ( history does not record ) to find no sea in sight ; just hundreds of yards of black and rank-smelling mud .
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