Example sentences of "turned up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I thumped one of them then another turned up with a gun . |
| 7 | There are nightclubs in the Reeperbahn which would bar him on sight if he turned up without a hat . |
| 8 | Obviously there has to be ‘ give and take ’ on both sides ; for example , I would not expect to be guaranteed a space for the cycle if I turned up without a reservation . |
| 9 | Having selected your water and turned up for a day 's fishing you then have to decide where the fish will be on the day in question . |
| 10 | Vera turned up for a cup of coffee dinner time and ended up staying there rest of the afternoon dinner with us , oh no come on in , give us it , where you sitting , off she went |
| 11 | In the qualifying stages they were drawn against Finland and Norway and staggered unconvincingly towards the finals , after only 13 members of the pool turned up for a training session at Ayr before the vital away match in Oslo . |
| 12 | He turned up for a remand hearing at Redbridge court covered in baby oil to make it difficult for warders to grab hold of him . |
| 13 | The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting . |
| 14 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |
| 15 | HUNDREDS of young fans were left disappointed after they turned up at a video store to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger and found a lookalike instead . |
| 16 | Even John Major , who is a friend of Wigley 's , turned up at a Plaid party a few years ago . |
| 17 | Not long after that blow to the ego , I turned up at a studio to do a commercial . |
| 18 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 19 | FIREMEN and police turned up at a house in Bracknell , Herts , with sirens blaring after Nibbles the hamster became trapped under the bath . |
| 20 | STUNNED staff turned up at a garage in Chicklade , Wilts , to find thieves had used a chainsaw to cut off and steal a petrol pump . |
| 21 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 22 | His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery . |
| 23 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 24 | In 1959 Dean Martin turned up in a Sinatra film , Some Come Running , having been wandering in the Hollywood wilderness since breaking up with his former screen buddy Jerry Lewis . |
| 25 | Part of Gould 's collection sent from Sydney shortly after his first visit to New South Wales only narrowly escaped being lost when it turned up in a warehouse that Gould happened to visit in Adelaide . |
| 26 | Corporal Philip Ainsworth and Lance Corporal Andrew Zolden turned up in a 27-tonne Foden six-wheeler capable of hauling a light battle tank with its remote-control crane . |
| 27 | 5 paintings by mass murderer Dennis Nilson , painted in a cell at Parkhurst jail , turned up in a shop at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire . |