Example sentences of "turned up [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Mr Major turned up to watch the cricket at Lord 's yesterday looking like a man without a care in the world . |
| 2 | The tiny village of East Prawle has enjoyed a tourist boom as visitors turned up to view the wreck — and take home a memento . |
| 3 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 4 | All that was a drop in the Clyde compared with the crowd at Celtic Park in April 1898 , when 50,000 turned up to see THE game … and the rest ! |
| 5 | The one score and three who turned up to see the morning game against Dorning had a real treat . |
| 6 | When The Fall played Leeds , part of their rider was to play a football match so all these young lads from the area turned up to take the piss . |
| 7 | At 5 o'clock they turned up to find the police waiting for them . |