Example sentences of "turn up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't be a Chocolate Teapot , melting away when the heat 's turned up at school ; stand up for God and know that he loves you enough to help you through each day , however hot it gets . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the company 's vice president of sales , Charles DeVita , has turned up at Mountain View , California-based Consilium Inc as vice president , worldwide sales and service . |
| 3 | But I also felt that the guitar became a different instrument when it was turned up to maximum and fully distorted — it was no longer a polyphonic instrument , really . |
| 4 | At 0810 he gathered his staff around him for the daily conference to discuss the day ahead , before taking the morning parade of those attending various courses at the school , to ensure that everyone had turned up for work . |
| 5 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 6 | Paula James , Matthew Glyrm 's youthful amanuensis ( after a one-year course in office routines at the technical college ) had turned up for work as usual , unaware of the events which had robbed her of her employer . |
| 7 | Emily Lightbody had not turned up for work since the preceding Friday , a rare occurrence in all her thirty years of service . |
| 8 | Mrs Allen 's body was found at her Harberton Park home on Tuesday morning after a senior officer at the Maze informed Banbridge police that she had not turned up for work . |
| 9 | But the dear old garment mysteriously turned up for sale at an auction in our social club . |
| 10 | There was some muttering among officials after the game that only nine players had turned up for training on Tuesday , but despite the defeat coach Bruce Liddle remained cheerfully optimistic . |
| 11 | The Queen , Queen Mother and Princes William , 10 , and Harry , eight , also turned up in time for lunch in the royal shooting lodge . |
| 12 | This is supposed to be the strongest set of women to have turned up in rock for ages , but it 's not healthy if it 's based on f—ed -up women . ’ |
| 13 | It was typical of the Lang Hancock style that he should have turned up in town with his young woman , caring little for the opinion of the climbers . |
| 14 | You 're not turning up to school in this are you ? |
| 15 | Because what we do n't have is people turning up to work because they 're afraid they 'll lose their job during these recessionary times . |
| 16 | Moreover , children attending school and adults turning up for work inevitably have their liberty restricted : simply because the engagement in one activity necessarily restricts their opportunity to participate in other activities , that is , restriction by effect . |
| 17 | He remembered her in the old days , singing at parties for hours and then turning up for rehearsal next day without any sign of strain or tiredness in her voice . |
| 18 | He saved one of the Signals Waafs from getting into trouble through not turning up for duty on time , simply by staying at his post until she finally did appear . |
| 19 | The report says percentages of women turning up for screening have also been encouraging . |
| 20 | Thus , years after the US and the USSR last sent space probes to the Moon to gather rock samples , a rich harvest of exciting new samples from space is turning up on Earth and which often raise more questions than they answer . |
| 21 | Operatives may be produced who are , to quote Mr Leslie Kemp , the 1983 chairman of the CITB , ’ general handymen , expensively trained by the taxpayer , turning up on site and giving the services of a jack-of-all-trades and master of none ’ . |
| 22 | For example , in the story above , Mrs Glen may have jumped to the wrong conclusion but if you were Mrs Glen how would YOU feel if you were tired , your lesson had been disrupted by exams in the hall next door , several people in the class were being awkward , you get interrupted by an unhappy violin teacher moaning about his pupils not turning up on time and then you re-enter your classroom to find someone crawling under your desk with a handful of expensive musical instrument ? ! |
| 23 | Born in Hackney of Jamaican and St Lucian parents , she is conscientious about turning up on time and ‘ not having a hangover ’ . |
| 24 | He was a very nice man and popular with the journalists , who gave him a ragged but friendly cheer for turning up on time . |
| 25 | Thank you very much for turning up on time . |
| 26 | Andy alias GG , Margaret-Nora , Phil-Dame Edna and Graeme-Rab raised over £400 for research into breast cancer by turning up at work the following day in disguise . |
| 27 | BREATHLESS PHONE calls first thing in the morning ; indecipherable typescripts bristling with spidery illustrations ; wild-eyed magnetic levitationists turning up at reception — New Scientist has dealt with the British inventor in his most extreme forms . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm the one who 's wondering why whites are turning up as zombis — and whites who have no official record , at that . |
| 29 | If you want to study the most refined version of clothes-talk , just look at all the elegant women who have been turning up in court recently . |
| 30 | Which is why you find extraordinary things like a Russian peregrine falcon turning up in North Cornwall , when it might have been planning to spend the winter in the Tropics . |