Example sentences of "turn up with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't really complain too much ; not after the time that he 'd run his patrol car into a ditch only three weeks into his new appointment , and the Middlemass girl ( 14 ) had turned up with a chain and towed him out . |
| 2 | The bridesmaid eventually turned up with a tale as long as her arm as to why , which nobody listened to . |
| 3 | With two brothers , he had turned up with a cash bid for House of Fraser . |
| 4 | A friend of mine suggests this is because my system is all transistor rather than valves , but the processor and power amp both sound fine when the volume of each is turned up with the volume of the other turned down . |
| 5 | A number of unused tickets , from not only the BCR have been turning up with a date in the year 1933 . |
| 6 | Will home helps start turning up with a set of clubs ? |
| 7 | One day he excelled himself , turning up with a piece of furniture the size of a large sideboard which housed the coveted television set along with a radiogram and a place to keep your records . |
| 8 | I studied piano , too , then trombone , but it was n't until someone at school turned up with a guitar which had been ‘ converted ’ into a bass that I really thought about the instrument . |
| 9 | There was also Alec , a prison officer from Wormwood Scrubs ( when he 'd given his address and next of kin on a previous camp everyone had thought he was kidding ) ; Ken , who to everyone 's delight turned up with a guitar ( were we really going to sit round a campfire singing ? ) ; and David , an aircraft engineer who after fifteen years in the Scouts could ‘ do wonderful things with ropes ’ . |
| 10 | When Little Owl Barbara McGlone married Andrew Hirst , the 23rd Wakefield Ossett Methodist Pack turned up with a flower each and presented the couple with a horseshoe . |
| 11 | My partner for the event was the marvellous American player Muffin Spencer-Devlin , who turned up with a bag which had ‘ Save the Whales ’ written all over it . |
| 12 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 13 | ‘ I thumped one of them then another turned up with a gun . |
| 14 | It was while we were deciding what to do that your policeman turned up with the news . ’ |
| 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 | ‘ We were offered a gig at a festival in Denmark , which we did n't know anything about , turned up with the gear , and we were on after BB King , and before Robert Cray , plus Bob Dylan was on later on — definitely not the worst billing we 've ever been on . |
| 17 | Several times that evening at Therese 's house , Flavia was on the point of saying , Rosette Fournier turned up with an apparition — who can she be ? |
| 18 | If she had to take her own reading things she ought to start collecting them now , whereas if they supplied them it would be embarrassing to turn up with a bag of newspapers , as if you did n't know how to behave . |
| 19 | She wrote to him quite sharply , not caring who read her letter , that : — it is impossible for me to post a gun as you ought to know you foolish man for what would the post office officials think were I to turn up with a gun to send ? |
| 20 | I know that some people look a bit surprised if you turn up with a bottle , but others are disappointed if you do n't . |
| 21 | Some spoilsports did n't turn up with a teddy , but others more than made up for them . |
| 22 | At least you can turn up with a sheet . |
| 23 | Let It Rock did unbelievably good business Friday night or Saturday morning a lorry would turn up with a delivery of creepers — the very things that enticed me into the shop in the first place . |
| 24 | All the promoters have to do is turn up with the act . |