Example sentences of "turn up [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The director general of the Building Societies Association , Mark Boleat , said the rise was encouraging and supported the reports from housebuilders and estate agents that the market had turned up since the beginning of the year .
2 But for his new single , ‘ Brothers Gon na Work It Out ’ , the man who gave new meaning to the term ‘ bedroom producer ’ has turned up with a contagious call for unity .
3 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 .
4 The bridesmaid eventually turned up with a tale as long as her arm as to why , which nobody listened to .
5 With two brothers , he had turned up with a cash bid for House of Fraser .
6 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 .
7 No , hold on , and I 've turned up with the wrong one .
8 Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts .
9 I am aware of agency nurses who have turned up at a hospital expecting to work on a ward caring for elderly people , only to be sent to work in the intensive care unit .
10 An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale .
11 At times the supporting leg would bend when on balance , whilst the working one was also bent with the foot turned up at the ankle during certain poses , or when performing a rond de jambe en dehors or en dedans during the pas de deux .
12 Captain David Lloyd-Owen 's LRDG patrol also turned up at the rendezvous and he recalls his first meeting with him .
13 Women simply never turned up at the showrooms of one of America 's top designers dressed like that , and with practically no make-up .
14 The judge was told that although the girl 's father was due to appear in court as a witness , he had not turned up at the hearing because the couple now planned to marry .
15 The scene when Nancy had turned up at the Shangri-La guest house must have been terrible .
16 His raincoat was turned up at the collar , but not to protect him against the rain , for he always wore it that way .
17 For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would
18 ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said .
19 In terms of progressing or taking part in the discussion , can I suggest that if you want to come in on a particular item , you put your name board up like that , so that we can readily observe it er and equally , our friend who is looking after the microphones can make sure that the vol the volume of your microphone is turned up at the appropriate time .
20 And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’
21 It is significant that Phil Weston , with his imposing England Under-19 cv , has turned up as an opener alongside Curtis .
22 And the fact that quite a lot of people had n't turned up on a certain day or that sort of thing .
23 Of the nine plays scheduled in 1987 , two never turned up on the day , and one got lost between King Cross and the Piece Hall and the players abandoned hope and went home .
24 That should n't relate to all you RUNNING readers who have followed Bruce Tulloh 's training schedules thoroughly and not just turned up on the day , unprepared and with no training under your belt .
25 These funny-looking blokes just turned up on the doorstep with rolls of carpet over their shoulders asking if we wanted to buy them .
26 Even fate appeared to be on our side : when the review copy of Madstock finally turned up on the morning of the interview , your hack managed to catch a full five seconds of guitarist Chris Foreman wandering across the park before the VHS started eating the tape .
27 But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young .
28 ‘ Some of our team just turned up on the night , pulled and had a belly full of beer . ’
29 Several delegates turned up to the banquet wearing dinner jackets with camouflage bow ties and cummerbunds .
30 Fatty : We could have turned up to the disco in these !
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