Example sentences of "turn up in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 2 | vol 96. p 41 8 ) has now turned up in the normal as well as the tumour tissues of a bladder cancer patient . |
| 3 | Their calibre , though , is impossible to deny : listen to the last half of Divine Madness and you 'll hear the most consistently pugnacious and provocative music British pop has turned up in the last 15 years . |
| 4 | The little booklet , which is turning up in the oddest of places , tells us for instance that ‘ Butter is a natural product — alternatives are different . ’ |
| 5 | The poem is thus curiously " displaced " , a late Victorian work turning up in the crisp 1930s , the Auden decade . |
| 6 | ‘ You thought that if you turned up in the smart suit and with the laser-beam smile you 'd wow them into panting agreement ? ’ |
| 7 | We used his PA system which was a bit ramshackle , but it worked — that was the main thing — and about 25 people turned up in the little mock Tudor , oak panelled dining room that was part of The Three Tuns pub in Beckenham . |
| 8 | Sound quality suffers without a sound card , but it turns up in the unlikeliest places . |
| 9 | ABS Computers Ltd , formerly the Allied Business Systems small business computer manufacturer , has long looked a vestigial part of the Trafalgar House Plc empire , too small to turn up in the annual report , and giving the impression that top management was unaware of its existence . |
| 10 | ABS Computers Ltd , formerly the Allied Business Systems small business computer manufacturer , has long looked a vestigial part of the Trafalgar House Plc empire , too small to turn up in the annual report , and giving the impression that top management was unaware of its existence . |
| 11 | WC apps : 8 The Belgians tend to be ignored until they suddenly turn up in the latter stages of major tournaments — the final of the 1980 European Championship and the semi-finals of the last World Cup . |
| 12 | The committee of six ( nearly all their names turn up in the 1910 sample ) organized a programme which included songs such as " The Old Countree " , and " Flight of Ages " , sung by Misses Forrest and Waugh ; the opportunity to dance quadrilles and waltzes ; and a pianoforte selection by Miss Thomson , who was , like most of the other performers , a compositor . |
| 13 | You hate me when I turn up in the sexy German motor , you hate me when I ca n't turn up at all . |
| 14 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 15 | He would turn up in the Primary School playground and call , ‘ Hi there , Nick ! ’ as if Nick was a boy the same age . |
| 16 | His behaviour at the visit seems to suggest that he was a disturbing presence , since he did not turn up in the Great Hall as expected , but disappeared into a derelict and disused part of the house from whence he had to be fetched . |