Example sentences of "[pron] turned up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned up at the Comedy Store here in London one night , petrified , because in those days it was a pretty testing place with a drunk , unruly audience . |
| 2 | When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ? |
| 3 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 4 | ‘ There was the time I turned up at the Arts Lab ( first and last time ) to see the Dylan film and could n't afford it . |
| 5 | ‘ I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine . |
| 6 | Asked about his first day , Terry said : ‘ I was stunned when I turned up on the Monday only to be confronted with the aftermath of the weekend fire . |
| 7 | ‘ I turned up for the interview , amid all these Bond beauties , in my tight black jersey dress on a really hot day , with false nails and false eyelashes sliding down my face , ’ Julie recalls with a smile . |
| 8 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 9 | One day she turned up with the Raleigh bike because she was worried that I did n't get out much . |
| 10 | The family 's maid has told how a dishevelled Spiro stopped her working when she turned up at the home the day after the killings . |
| 11 | She turned up at the Café Dôme one night , her beautiful dress torn to shreds . |
| 12 | One of the precautions was that everybody however remotely connected with the pie had to have their excreta tested , and this fact led to the pinstriped officials from Westminster who turned up on the night before pie day being turned away . |
| 13 | It was a show of force which appeared somewhat out of proportion to the 200 or so trade unionists who turned up outside the court . |
| 14 | It had been Marcus who turned up at the Evans house on Saturday afternoon when Pascoe was there . |
| 15 | Sadly , wayward genius GEORGIE BEST , who turned up with The Farm , slickly eluded our lensman and left after about ten minutes to dance his studded boots off at some West End nightclub . |
| 16 | Switching between one-day and five-day mode was unpopular with the players , and the new showbiz-style razzmatazz that accompanied the games seemed specifically designed to cater for the drunken yobbos who turned up by the cartload . |
| 17 | ‘ But that night you turned up at the farmhouse , you said … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 19 | Kylie and her new Svengali Blamey got an instant glimpse of that arrogance when they turned up on the doorstep of the Hit Factory . |
| 20 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
| 21 | Some of Barnet 's players did n't know about Fry 's Friday night re-instatement until they turned up at the ground . |
| 22 | Mr Smith said : ‘ I cried when they turned up at the frontier . |
| 23 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
| 24 | The phone kept ringing and no one there , and then he turned up on the doorstep . |
| 25 | It must have been quite a shock when he turned up on the doorstep . ’ |
| 26 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 27 | The man posed as a gas board official when he turned up at the restaurant in Tarrant Street , Arundel , Sussex . |
| 28 | He turned up at the game with his head shaven , Gazza style , to raise money for a children 's cancer charity as part of Friday 's Comic Relief day . |
| 29 | If he turned up in the middle of Stephie 's visit , then tough ! |
| 30 | Just as we were leaving he turned up in the hallway . |