1 She is working up to mentioning more pay.

2 The orchestra was working up to a crescendo.

3 The practice is not a very lucrative one at the moment, but if it is worked up It'should prove quite profitable.

4 The craftsman is working up the mass of clay into a toy figure.

5 They will work up all these stones in building the bridge.

6 Yuki is working up an in - home phonics program slated for Thursdays , and I'm drilling her on English conversation at dinnertime.

7 The practice is not a very lucrative one at the moment, but if it is worked up it should prove quite profitable.

8 All the paper you carried to the workshop has been worked up.

9 He'd been working up to asking her for a date all week.

10 They still had no place of their own but by the fall of 1872 were working up the plans for one.

11 Keep this in mind, says Reed, if you are working up a sweat digging your car out of a ditch.

12 The client is also understood to be working up proposals for the final phase of the project to build a leisure centre.

13 Both seemed helpless, and Mrs Garfitt was working up to hysterics.

14 We notice that they are watching us intently and are working up the courage to speak to us.

15 A few of these devices should be exploded every year to test whether the refurbishing is working up to snuff.

16 For good measure, some of these ideas have been worked up into watercolour paintings.

17 One retired schoolteacher I know was working up to the age of 70 as a volunteer guide in a local museum.

18 The passions of these people can soon be worked up.

19 These notes are most interesting. They deserve to be worked up into a book.

20 Had Kwame Brown been drafted in the second round, and paid that kind of money throughout his career, who on earth would be worked up about his performance this year?