Example sentences of "turn up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You did n't turn up for a meeting two weeks ago . ’ |
| 2 | They did , however , provide a good deal of entertainment for the rest of the group and would be missed if they did not turn up for a game . |
| 3 | The old man did n't turn up for a week , and then two weeks and then three weeks and everybody was fairly in despair . |
| 4 | Some spoilsports did n't turn up with a teddy , but others more than made up for them . |
| 5 | At least you can turn up with a sheet . |
| 6 | Let It Rock did unbelievably good business Friday night or Saturday morning a lorry would turn up with a delivery of creepers — the very things that enticed me into the shop in the first place . |
| 7 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 8 | Newspaper publicity always gave the impression that the school could train anyone from scratch with little or no dance experience so young readers felt that they could just turn up without an appointment and would immediately be seen by this apparently motherly woman called Jennie Tiller . |
| 9 | Mind you , not many Mormons would turn up at a Barbican flat at 7.30 clutching two bottles of wine . |
| 10 | we 've got a busload here sir , they 'll probably turn up in a cab and ask you to pay for it |
| 11 | Why the hell could n't she turn up in a Barbour , a headscarf and a Volvo like everyone else 's mother ? |
| 12 | They may turn up in a show of force in the Market Square . ’ |