How To Use Turn up In A Sentence

Grasses, flax, astelia, griselinia, and coprosma are generally quite hardly and will stand a good deal of rough and tumble before they turn up their toes. Rotorua Daily Post
Turn up the heat and reduce the poaching liquor by one third. Times, Sunday Times
I quickly racked my brain for the answer, only to turn up with nothing but a blank.
We are working on the assumption that everyone invited will turn up.
There was two or three chairs, that might have been worth, in their best days, from eightpence to a shilling a – piece; a small deal table, an old corner cupboard with nothing in it, and one of those bedsteads which turn up half way, and leave the bottom legs sticking out for you to knock your head against, or hang your hat upon; no bed, no bedding. Sketches by Boz

I'm pretty sure some of my neighbors would still turn up for bear-baiting or a nice drawing and quartering if it were going on down at the town green. Where I work...
I managed to turn up a copy in both Nagari and Nastaliq of another of his stories, "Khol Do" here or here for Nastaliq; furthermore, the fact that the Devanagari version was copied from a source text gives me hope of finding such an edition for myself... or, of course, I could just finally learn how to read the script... Languagehat.com: SAADAT HASAN MANTO.
But do I relish the idea of playing a character where you're not playing the lead role and where you can turn up and absolutely go crazy?
Now is the time to really turn up the dial. The Sun
This will be a stern test for Ballintubber and all club supporters are asked to turn up and give their support to the boys in red.
Turn up the heat and add the chopped tomatoes and the tomato puree. The Sun
They now turn up in the consulting room. Times, Sunday Times
They would turn up for training bang on time and work hard. The Sun
People turn up in cars to allow their dogs to exercise, which is fine, but then do not clean up after their pets.
She's worn one of my floaty chiffon gowns embroidered with petals but she can turn up in a pair of men's trousers with a print shirt. Times, Sunday Times
Hordes of participants are expected to turn up for this fun event, from business teams to school teams, and sporting enthusiasts to those just taking part for a lark.
To take part, all you need to do is turn up in warm, old clothes, with sensible sturdy shoes.
The property and porn barons did not even turn up for the meeting, leaving their "sacker" to do the deed. 'Sacker' Karren Brady would never sugar the pill for Gianfranco Zola
Here was Spain having its hottest summer for years and we turn up to an absolute cloudburst.
They suddenly turn up en masse and stand in the sea talking to each other. Times, Sunday Times
The bride's bouquet and 30 buttonholes for the guests failed to turn up at the couple's home.
What, then, we have to beware of, is not being refuted, but seeming to be, because of course the asking of amphibolies and of questions that turn upon ambiguity, and all the other tricks of that kind, conceal even a genuine refutation, and make it uncertain who is refuted and who is not. On Sophistical Refutations
I'd love to turn up as her the in daughter long-lost episodes. The Sun
But would anyone turn up their nose at a wedge of fresh home-baked Victoria sponge, sandwiched with a generous splodge of farmhouse strawberry jam and dairy cream?
The son returns to be by his father's bedside, and finds that the old man has still a lot of pluck that he displays when his old friend turn up.
Ascending a mountain on skis requires bindings with a heel release, and ‘skins’ made of mohair or nylon which let the skis glide, turn uphill and grip the snow.
They may return up to twice a week to remeasure and to take blood samples.
So he refused to turn up at meetings after the election, meaning the council did not have enough members to conduct its business, pay its staff, or even co-opt new members to form a quorum.
There is nowhere to buy tickets so if the conductor doesn't turn up, what can I do?
It wouldn't be quite the thing to turn up in running gear.
I sent a message to the list explaining that I'd unsubscribed, and that I would still try to turn up at the odd events, and maybe reappear on the list at some point later.
Don't think he has only to turn up and canter past the stands. Times, Sunday Times
Because it was radio, he could presumably turn up for work in an old cardie.
If genuine wealthy backers were out there, yearning to back me wealthily, was I to turn up my nose at them? Why Sarah Palin and I Aren't Running
I can't turn up at a funeral in a pink jacket. What an idea!
But the mob surrounds it until police vans turn up. The Sun
They said he was right not to turn up the volume because it risked distorting the sound, though this was agreed procedure before the series. Times, Sunday Times
No one wants a former employee to turn up to the celebration of a bumper bonus. Times, Sunday Times
The diphthongs ayyy and eeee turn up again and again, long vowels lengthened by slow consonants around them.
After half an hour a few more people start to turn up and the hockey gets under way.
Fox News cites one former Bush official who slammed the approach as "de facto amnesty," accusing the Obama administration of "turning a blind eye to entire categories of aliens" fand failing to arrest and deport the illegal immigrants who turn up on these workplace audits. How Obama is firing immigrant workers -- but not deporting them
He was threatened with dismissal if he continued to turn up late for work.
The enthusiasts turn up in kilts and sporrans.
A peat fire burns all day and locals sometimes turn up with their bagpipes, accordions or mouth organs!
Carry on to Seacombe Cliff and turn up Seacombe Bottom until you see a stone marker on the left.
It was in vain to argue the tyranny of some husbands, when he could turn upon us the follies of some wives; and that wives and daughters were never more faulty, more undomestic, than at present; and when we were before a judge, who, though he could not be absolutely unpolite, would not flatter us, nor spare our foibles. Sir Charles Grandison
When I was seventeen, I worked in a London pub where all the locals would turn up on Friday nights wearing cowboy outfits, order Jack Daniels instead of their usual pint of bitter, and deposit replica six-shooters on the bar.
Turn up the heat and let it bubble until the sugar has dissolved. Times, Sunday Times
Yet he could still turn up unannounced at any time in a bar in a far-flung corner of the Highlands with a fiddle under his chin. Times, Sunday Times
We don't ask them to turn up to work with their shirts off or in tight trousers for the women, so this represents double standard. The Sun
But the most practical option seems to be to screw your earbuds in tighter and turn up the volume on your personal sound track.
But the Sri Lankans didn't help themselves by using scaredy-cat fields and just hoping summat might turn up.
In particular, protein fractionation is likely to turn up fractions with methionine and cystine levels even greater than fonio's already amazingly high average. 3. Fonio (Acha)
Here are the association's tips for managing ursine visitors that may turn up in your yard.
Soon, the sinister military turn up, as townsfolk begin to disappear. The Sun
I would turn up the pressure on China to reunite the Korean peninsula," said John Bolton, who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations in the Bush administration.
Some of the lads have come and gone, but we've got a hard core who almost always turn up.
Shape into rectangle, turn up sides and place on a baking tray lined with nonstick parchment. Times, Sunday Times
Fortunately he didn't turn up, or we might have suffered an embarrassing reverse, as he's probably stronger than us.
We'll see if any horribly disfiguring scars turn up later.
These Seventies coup s turn up at auctions like bad teeth at an infant's school dental check.
The players need to turn up on time, wearing their kit and ready to play. Times, Sunday Times
If you needed something repaired, you said so loudly and a workman would mysteriously turn up. Times, Sunday Times
They turn up uninvited and bombard my husband with texts asking what she's eating or wearing. The Sun
Im 100% for the use of marijuana (or heroin for that matter) for strictly medical purposes, the benefits of both are well documented but until people can learn to act responsibly and use the drugs we already have responsibly and not turn up for work boozed or stoned (a stoned man driving a forklift is a truely terrifying thing), then I think shings should stay as they are. TPN :: GDay World
It seems rude not to turn up, especially if only a few people are attending and your absence will be noted.
But there appears to be little hard evidence of pupils failing to turn up for the second paper.
Lane, a somewhat disreputable character, did not turn up to defend himself, and was excommunicated.
Gerard Rice made it 2-1 for Newcastle midway through the second half, a signal for the Seasiders to turn up the pressure.
Fans who turn up drunk may be arrested. Times, Sunday Times
However, there's also a statutory defence for the defence to show that they had a reasonable excuse for failing to turn up.
You turn up a bit grubby, with a dusty old backpack, and they look rather alarmed.
Turn up the heat and reduce the poaching liquor by one third. Times, Sunday Times
if you are cold, turn up the heat
After several of the local townsfolk turn up dead, all eyes fall upon this disturbed and destructive kid.
We are working on the assumption that everyone invited will turn up.
May the police now turn up on a whim and rootle around in our drawers? safeasmilk 2 October 2011 7:47AM The Guardian World News
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not but happen that, in the course of ages events would now and then turn up to which some of these vague rhapsodies might be accommodated by the aid of allegories, figures, types, and other tricks upon words, they have not only preserved their credit with the Jews of all subsequent times, but are the foundation of much of the religions of those who have schismatized from them. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
Thus to return upon our adversaries, is a healing way of revenge; and to do good for evil a soft and melting ultion, a method taught from heaven to keep all smooth on earth. Christian Morals
But though the days of clippies and extended tea breaks may be long gone, retired Scarborough driver Charlie Bullock is determined to turn up in his coffin aboard his old double-decker.
I'll hazard a wager: no one will ever turn up with thirty-year-old originals.
The chances are we shall turn up some perfectly simple motive.
The television screen was enormous, but I had to turn up the volume to hear it over the roar of Park Lane.
If you are an expert sailor or you can't tell a reef knot from a mainbrace, just turn up and you can be sure of being welcomed on one of the club boats for a sail.
Discarded pieces from games may turn up stars, triangles or octagons.
Others failed to turn up for job centre appointments. The Sun
A star-studded evening it would be as some Tollywood stars are expected to turn up at the event, and the movie-crazy Hyderabadis can have their own share of fun.
Ribbon leeches, which have firm bodies and minimal suction, make excellent bait, but a walleye will turn up its nose at a horseleech or medicine leech, which have soft, squishy bodies and strong suction.
The idea is the turn up the volume of neuronal signals that use acetylcholine as a transmitter molecule, by inhibiting the enzyme that would break it down and sweep it out of the synapse.
You must turn up the volume, find a new blasphemy to utter, discover the certain something still unsayable that you, and you alone, dare to say.
Do firecrests only stay for winter in the south west or can they turn up any time?
I heard once, from a bloke in an extremely loud bar, that the reason these places turn up the music is because it gets your adrenalin going, and that makes you thirsty and so you drink more.
Caldwell thought media coverage might turn up some leads.
The way you manage this is by being the people who always turn up prepared with arguments, motions and nominations, who get there first and leave last. Times, Sunday Times
Other athletes might turn up to the track for training with an attitude or they might well be grumpy or feeling down. Times, Sunday Times
Earlier this year, commentators and letter writers seemed to turn up the heat.
He failed to turn up for the concert, disappointing the legions of fans waiting outside.
Although these tools make it easier to spy, undercover agents still have to turn up at the right place at the right time in order to collect the information.
In a city of cyclists he drove a powerful motorbike and would regularly turn up to the mosque in his biker leathers. Times, Sunday Times
Turn up the heat and let it bubble until the sugar has dissolved. Times, Sunday Times
Today very nearly featured a mercy mission to the local hospital, until the patient in question had the nerve to be discharged before Lisa and I could turn up with the grapes.
A little bit of elementary Googling doesn't seem to turn up even the crack-pottiest holistic medicine ideas for calmatives or sinus-clearing or whatever. Damn Hell Ass Kings
They turn up some interesting esoterica: it's the connections they then try to make that I, personally, disagree with.
Galusha's ear that he cal'lated 'twouldn't do no harm to turn on the glim and proceeded forthwith to turn up the wick of one of the lamps. Galusha the Magnificent
He and his brother Rob were inspirational and they led, spiritually, a lot of those training sessions because they would turn up covered in straw, sweat, mud and goodness knows what else, and they would flog themselves in every training session, and then go back to the farm" – Paul Cullen following the death of Garry Purdham, whom he coached at Whitehaven, in the Cumbrian shootings. My Super League awards show
Lost are the Kunduz Hoard and the Bagram Treasure - looted rather than destroyed because coins and ivories, well known from catalogue records, continue to turn up on the illicit art market.
I always remember him as a rather scrawny kid who used to ref our senior games when the official referee didn't turn up.
On the day the phone and broadband were due to be installed, the engineer failed to turn up. Times, Sunday Times
I'm not in a financial position to turn up my nose at several hundred thousand pounds.
I was getting a bit annoyed, knowing that he would turn up on the doorstep drunk and argumentative and I could think of a million and one things I would rather do than skirmish with a drunkard.
There are a lot of regular guests who turn up just to tuck into salads, including many who are avowed weight-watchers.
He added: ‘I will be more than happy myself to simply turn up one Saturday morning and paint the lines out.’
Well, if you missed the presentation because you couldn't be bothered to turn up on time, that's your hard luck!
Background checks can turn up records of assaults or other violence, as well as white-collar crimes.
Let's first review all the texts in the Bible pertaining to the mark of the beast and the worship of its image, and see how texts referring to the lamblike beast and the false prophet turn up as well.
Perhaps I should turn up late, reeking of red wine and motel sheets, with lipstick on my collar and my flies down.
If he had been blackjacked there would be the clue of the weapon, always likely to turn up, the chance of witnesses, and also the likelihood in an extreme case that Werner might not die at once, but might talk and give a description of his assailant, or even survive. The Film Mystery
Analysis of the ink in a lab notebook, for example, might turn up backdated entries or other mischief.
The singer did turn up but she remained firmly ensconced in a VIP room at the back of the venue and refused to appear on stage. Times, Sunday Times
I also have friends who hate going on trips with me, because they say I always make them feel guilty when they turn up with three suitcases to my one.
They're a hairdressing chain that operates under the rule that you don't have to make an appointment — you just turn up.
He also saved his detailed, melancholic diary - which did not turn up for more than a century, and which provides such a valuable anchor to Frémont's buoyant optimism.
As soon as the door was opened, I was confronted by a loathsome oleograph of a Neapolitan shepherdess (that same oleograph used to turn up often in the shops where unclaimed objects from the state pawnshop, the Monte di Pietà, are sold). Home Alone
They know that whether or not they turn up to court, the result is probably going to be about the same, they're probably going to be found guilty and they're probably going to cop a fine.
Why not offer 10 tickets to entice long-suffering fans to turn up? Times, Sunday Times
Although it's all hip and happening and located in the East Village, it's not a nobby joint and no one will think twice if you turn up in your sweats after a workout at the gym.
I was tempted to visit to see if there were any tall, broody types in long black overcoats, but with the number of these things which turn up during the year I think I'm getting clown fatigue.
You will appreciate that I spend much of my time reading the newspapers in order to turn up neologisms and other interesting terms.
Now, instead of standing over the pot, ladling and stirring, you just add the broth, turn up the heat so that it bubbles steadily, and cook until the pasta has softened and absorbed almost all the broth. A Not-Risotto by Any Other Name
Trouble begins when assorted bits of a skinny-dipping coed turn up on the beach.
He might turn up with the cash.""Some hope!
Many police trawls did not turn up sufficient evidence to satisfy the burden of proof.
Giggs Look What The Cat Dragged In (XL) While the aesthetic of other young UK rappers may involve dry-humping whichever female singer happens to turn up to their video shoot, Giggs stalks around the outskirts of a party filmed in a multistorey car park seemingly lit using a couple of wind-up torches. This week's new singles
The players need to turn up on time, wearing their kit and ready to play. Times, Sunday Times
But trying to protect sponsors by arresting people who turn up in the wrong T-shirt is like a government trying to censor the internet. Times, Sunday Times
GOOD on teachers for dressing down parents who turn up in school wearing pyjamas. The Sun
You go down to the beach in a group after dark and wait patiently until the turtles turn up - big, lumbering, shelled shapes, dragging themselves over the sand.
May the police now turn up on a whim and rootle around in our drawers? Invasion of the body scanners | Victoria Coren
When a jobbing actress failed to turn up, Kay's wife Susan, then a pharmacist's assistant in Boots, stepped in.
As with any team facing an Old Firm member in the Scottish Cup final, the script reads that you turn up, do your best, but prepare for a hiding and the consolation of a loser's medal.
Every so often Dad would turn up with a bag of laundry and holes in his socks, and I'd be sent to Jeweks's for a skein of darning wool. MR STARLIGHT
Cue Manta birostris. "Just after high tide you'll see a few manta rays turn up, " says Guy Stevens, a British marine biologist who's been researching the Maldives mantas for the past three years.
You can turn up to work naked for all I care, and the law would uphold your right. Times, Sunday Times
Loads of unsigned bands turn up and doss about for a week, basically.
Add the parsley, chopped tomato and saffron and turn up the heat.
My recommendation: buy it, turn up the bass and burn some calories.
Two-thirds of those summoned for jury service do not turn up, some making their excuses, some not bothering.
However, I suspect that a scan for bigrams with quantitatively similar properties would turn up lots of unremarkable examples.
Not only did he turn up late, he also forgot his books.
The Kickapoo was an eccentric person who was apt to turn up anywhere on the llano on some outlandish errand that no other Indian would bother about. Comanche Moon
At the moment, if you want a game you just turn up and post your 20 fee into an old Royal Mail box which serves as an honesty box.
If an ace of spades is turned up, the next player must turn up 4 more cards.
Not only did he turn up late, he also forgot his books.
Jeff Pearlman of Sports Illustrated, another voter, found Bagwell implicated by his hulking musculature when he could not turn up any tangible evidence of steroid use. Asher Smith: Hall of Fame Voters Don't Care When Pitchers Take Steroids
We are working on the assumption that everyone invited will turn up.
Each year, there are foreigners who turn up at Nawa Sensei's dojo looking for ninjutsu or inquiring about whether he'll accept someone as a student.
They suddenly turn up en masse and stand in the sea talking to each other. Times, Sunday Times
Back when I was an editor at HBR, I spent a lot of time plowing through turgid academic papers trying to turn up nuggets of practical wisdom.
They disperse in winter and may turn up in almost any large clump of reeds. Times, Sunday Times
Its mild alkalinity works to turn up fatty acids contained in dirt and grease into a form of soap that can be dissolved in water and rinsed easily.
Interviews with people who profess to enjoy classical music turn up all sorts and conditions of appreciation.
I'm not in a financial position to turn up my nose at several hundred thousand pounds.
Objects like this turn up at sales with surprising frequency.
If a swagman wants a night's lodging, he shouldn't turn up till the sun is almost on the horizon, just before it goes down. THE BLACK OPAL
A search on blondies in the 1918 cookbook doesn't turn up anything, but there is likely something similar under a different name.
A quick JSTOR search didn't turn up any studies of it in the literature, but it seems to me that a symphony orchestra is a classic monopsonistic employer: there's an extremely limited number (often only one) within a given labor market, and the employees — musicians — are liable to put up with an awful lot of crap in order to make any money doing what they love to do. Archive 2008-05-01
It is quite exceptional for something of this importance to turn up unrecognised in a garden. Times, Sunday Times
It is inadvisable to turn up for a job interview without the European Computer Driving Licence, the licence to drive computers.
Dad used to turn up unannounced and stay for about three days.
The Fhilofopheny in their diftribution of virtues have generally agreed upon four J which they call cardinal, becaufc all the reii: do turn upon them as upon their hinges. Sermons preach'd upon several occasions
In an effort to stop worrying, do we just manufacture some sort of emotionalized faith, quote some Bible verses, and turn up the “praise” music on the radio? HOW EVIL WORKS
At the Keck Observatory, it is now possible to measure extremely subtle star wobbles, so even smaller planets should soon turn up.
The rocking-horse's nose couldn't turn up, it was the purest Grecian, modelled from the Elgin marbles. The Brownies and Other Tales
If you reserve seats in a restaurant and don't turn up it can be serious for the restaurant owner.
FOUR Spanish airports have been shut this weekend after air traffic controllers failed to turn up for work. The Sun
Hence it is a social offense to turn up one's shoe or foot to a companion. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
It was no longer possible merely to turn up at the door on a whim, because you felt like a giggle all of a sudden.
The same arts and allegories, the same phraseologies and philosophies, which appear first as proofs of heathen health turn up later as proofs of Christian corruption. The New Jerusalem
My uncle and a friend were walking around the garden talking and happened to turn up just as I jumped in. The Sun
And even though he says small-town reserve exasperates him, he can still turn up on a film set and think of himself as the ‘teuchter’ - his description - just doon frae the Spey Valley.
It no longer gives gongs to pop superstars from across the pond simply because they agree to turn up. Times, Sunday Times
The name murmured at the door had not reached my ears, and I was still wondering which of my child-friends had developed into this charming and fashionable young lady, when Tabitha burst into the room, flung her arms round the new-comer's neck, and exclaimed, "You darling, who would have expected you to turn up so charmingly, just when we didn't expect you! A Loose End and Other Stories
A farmer comes turn up the soil, scree is thrown a driveway.
They are worried that conclusive evidence of the banned programs will turn up at any moment.
Friends from the past who you haven't seen in ages may turn up today and the sense of happy nostalgia you'll feel will be overwhelming. The Sun
You will appreciate that I spend much of my time reading the newspapers in order to turn up neologisms and other interesting terms.
It might even turn up a chunk of code I can decompile for a clue about who wrote it. CYCLE THIEVES by Mark Ward | Fiction | Futurismic
But trying to protect sponsors by arresting people who turn up in the wrong T-shirt is like a government trying to censor the internet. Times, Sunday Times
In this awful moment of suspense, which seemingly but preceded the disuniting of soul and body, each of the young men turned a breathless look of horror upon the old hunter, such as landsmen in a terrible gale at sea would turn upon the commander of the vessel; but, save an almost imperceptible quiver of the lips, not a muscle of the now stern countenance of Boone changed. Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life
Parents always chose the most inconvenient moments to turn up. Times, Sunday Times
Instead the local bobby would turn up at the Village Christmas Fete or something or have a visible presence on Carol singing night so the little darlings could go begging erm i mean singing door to door in reassured safety. 62 French Girls Can’t Be Wrong « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The record company reps turn up a half hour before show time.
But when the manager says beforehand that he is going to field a weakened side, why would anyone turn up? The Sun
On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert: (Printed on bottom of the box. ) Do not turn upside down.
Some Saturday mornings Johnny would turn up at the car park of the Victor Hotel. DESPERADOES
The park is packed with fab free family fun - all you need to do is turn up, unpack and enjoy. The Sun
The scheme involves pursuing those who skip bail and fail to turn up to a hearing after being released on bail.
But it is the Law of Sod, they may not arrive in the last delivery this evening, but they'll probably turn up in the first on Monday morning.
It pays homage to the consoling human connection which alone can save us, and which turn up in the oddest places. Times, Sunday Times
The charge was initially dropped after a witness who was to testify against her failed to turn up at the hearing.

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