Example sentences of "working up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the 1850s , it was solely a corn mill , working up to the First World War . |
| 2 | With the edge of the island visible on either side , Manhattan sits in murky river , an absurd chunk of metropolis looking like a Gothic spaceship working up to an explosive departure from the planet . |
| 3 | And she adds , ‘ Sometimes I even get the feeling that he 's deliberately working up to a smack ; almost testing me out , pushing me to the limit ! ’ |
| 4 | The Electricity Privatisation Bill states that working up to the year 2000 supply companies must buy between 15 and 20 per cent of their energy from non-fossil fuel resources . |
| 5 | Alternate them , starting at three and working up to five days by Week Four . |
| 6 | Spencer managed to persuade Tony Bianchi to let him have an hour-and-a-half in a Harvard , by way of working up to his most impressive taildragger to date … |
| 7 | If you have kept the elastic stretched enough you should be able to now lift your restraining thumb and use two hands to wrap the elastic round and round , working up to the eye and past it , holding in the lapels firmly under the stretched elastic . |
| 8 | It was run be Peter Hindle , who now makes the planes , and was remarkable for its practical ‘ hands on ’ approach , which called for concentrated effort , some students working up to 8pm at night ! |
| 9 | Topaz had dreaded the moment since she first realized what Timothy had been working up to . |
| 10 | ‘ I do hope you 're not working up to telling me that you wo n't be able to pay me what I 'm due ? |
| 11 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 12 | Both seemed helpless , and Mrs Garfitt was working up to hysterics . |
| 13 | Are you working up to a proposition ? |
| 14 | ‘ But we were just working up to the knees and you 've still got $ 85,750 left on the meter . ’ |
| 15 | Junior doctors across the region are to ballot on industrial action in protest at working up to a hundred hours a week . |
| 16 | Junior doctors are tired … tired of working up to one hundred hours a week , and tired of complaining about it . |
| 17 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 18 | ‘ So what I 'm working up to telling you is that when he got silly he let anyone in that house . |
| 19 | Using his Leicester home as an office , he found himself working up to 80 hours a week , corresponding with people in America , Australia and all over Europe . |
| 20 | Living in quite appalling cramped conditions often working up to eighteen hours day after day . |