Example sentences of "turned up [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One girl who turned up for night duty wearing plimsolls received a proper rocket . |
| 2 | I could still run , so I turned up for football training and things have gone on from there . |
| 3 | No patients turned up for evening surgery , but , for once , that was not depressing . |
| 4 | Some time ago I turned up at Broadcasting House to meet someone for lunch . |
| 5 | When the last shot had been fired and the troops left for the United States , many GIs turned up at embarkation points with loyal canine friends concealed in their kit bags . |
| 6 | The flat was owned by Mick 's grandmother , who regularly turned up at Clash gigs . |
| 7 | ‘ Prof ’ Francis always turned up at celebrity concerts and was often able to slip into an empty seat at intermission . |
| 8 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |