Example sentences of "turn up he " in BNC.

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1 One day when Modi finally turned up he was penniless , unable to account for his lost weekend , hungry and dirty .
2 When Simon first turned up he did n't have anything at all .
3 Those coppers had been assembling , you see , so I lurked in the shadows and watched , and when the Top Cop turned up he told them all to get in the Black Maria .
4 hen Mark turned up he was red-eyed and in a foul temper .
5 So I said I know what he 's like , comes back and he turns up he says we 're just off now , I said oh you 've come back then I thought you were a bit rude just storming out of the funeral and not saying cheerio to everyone , he said I 've been insulted long enough by your family , I would n't be , I was n't prepared to be insulted any more
6 Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants .
7 His name was Marlon Brando , and his crimes against the establishment were to be rude to influential columnists , to fail to turn up at functions ( and when he did turn up he wore T-shirt and jeans ) , and publicly to deplore Hollywood and its natives .
8 ‘ When Warren did eventually turn up he was marvellously witty and entertaining — but unfortunately that was only when the cameras WERE N'T rolling .
9 He might turn up he might turn up and then say no sorry twenty grand forget it , do n't want to work for you anyway .
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