Example sentences of "work up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This stuff ( as he put it to himself ) often does work up to a point . |
| 2 | Once the bus stopped , however , he was immediately up and out , using the ten minutes available to sketch in the ingredients of a scene which he would later work up in a hotel room . |
| 3 | Why get all worked up about a crag that is unclimable for most of the time ? |
| 4 | One ardent supporter , no doubt worked up as a result of our pressure campaign , suggested a telegram to H.M. |
| 5 | My subject of frost covered trees and hedgerows involved little colour and was mostly worked up in a sequence of colour tinted greys bearing reference numbers in the 800s . |
| 6 | Some people work up for a lifetime to cross the Channel and then get published in a magazine . |
| 7 | 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 ! ’ |
| 8 | Are you working up to a proposition ? |
| 9 | He could feel the sweat of the hall still on him , cold now ; working up towards a shiver . |