Example sentences of "turn up in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sense of his living in a closed world , stylistically speaking , is beautifully conveyed when Falstaff , frustrated in his attempts to get a simple answer to a simple question , wanting to know his ‘ happy news ’ , is forced to move up to Pistol 's manner : — an effect not unlike that if W. C. Fields had turned up in a performance of Mourning Becomes Electra ! |
| 2 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 3 | His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery . |
| 4 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Part of Gould 's collection sent from Sydney shortly after his first visit to New South Wales only narrowly escaped being lost when it turned up in a warehouse that Gould happened to visit in Adelaide . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 5 paintings by mass murderer Dennis Nilson , painted in a cell at Parkhurst jail , turned up in a shop at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire . |
| 9 | Well they 're given a time to turn up in a group are n't they ? |
| 10 | we 've got a busload here sir , they 'll probably turn up in a cab and ask you to pay for it |
| 11 | They may turn up in a show of force in the Market Square . ’ |