How To Use Work up In A Sentence

His face wore a lopsided grin, and he crouched down near the fire and set to work upon the other shoe.
It took him ten years to work up to the position of general manager.
If you have what it takes , you can work up to the presidency of the company.
When a few weeks later it was reported in the papers that Wilcox had been shot at from an ambuscade, it was an open secret that McMurdo was still at work upon his unfinished job. Chennai
It took him ten years to work up to the position of general manager.

The combination of punching and quick movement will work up a sweat, help get the row off your chest and release the feel-good endorphins. The Sun
He pumped a squirt of antibacterial soap into his hands, and rubbed them together to work up a lather.
I don't seem to find it at all difficult to work up an enthusiasm for being outdoors, wrapped up all snug and cosy, rosy cheeked and huffing great breath-clouds into the frosty air.
Ticker tapes, blaring cable news network updates, and new advertising overlays all bespeak a bummed out bear market that never bounced back. Artifacts From the Future: Wall Street 2013 — Brother, Can You Spare a Yuan?
Usually, once the story begins then I kind of relax into it, but there is sort of an anticipatory work up that happens.
You can't chalk his bad work up to lack of trying.
Channel Seven contracted an outside lawyer to work up a draft agreement and has refused to negotiate on anything falling outside its scope.
I know you're supposed to start slow and work up so I am trying to pace myself.
Here in Southern California we're accustomed to summer westerlies and northwesterlies that kick in about noon and may work up to about 20 knots.
Despite lots of grinding and gurgling noises, we have failed to work up sufficient steam and the results seem a bit tepid. Times, Sunday Times
But what gratified him most of all, I think, was the fact that before we had been aboard two days I had got Simpson, the sailmaker, at work upon an enormous jack-yard gaff-topsail for use in light winds, the only gaff-topsail that the schooner had hitherto possessed being a trumpery little jib-headed affair which she could carry in quite a strong breeze. Turned Adrift
The presidential candidate was trying to work up more support before the election.
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After returning to terra firma the photographer said: ‘It was a lot further up that I realised and I admire the builders for their pluck in being able to work up so high.’
Roman satin" and what is called "_satin de luxe_" (perhaps because it is not so luxurious as it pretends to be) are effective ground-stuffs easy to work upon; but there is an odour of pretence about satin-faced cotton. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery
Particularly stubborn stains will guarantee you work up a sweat. The Sun
Your creative talents can also be put to good use, if you can work up the energy.
Mounted on the aluminum chassis is a steel framework upon which fiberglass body panels are fitted.
I doubt," said Vickers dryly, "that a Neanderthaler could work up a very powerful inferiority complex. Ring Around the Sun
Painters often use the medium to make lightning sketches in situ to work up into larger finished oils back at the studio. Times, Sunday Times
The matching impedance and wastage relate to the TWT can or can not work up to snuff. They are the problems which need be solved when we design the input and output apparatus.
Tcheti minei" (menologies), a work upon which he spent twenty years; many sacred discourses that are appreciated for the simplicity of their style and for their depth of religious sentiment, and, finally, of several sacred plays, one of the most interesting of which is the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
Drainage and building work upriver leads to flooded houses downriver - just ask them in Clonmel!
I would like to do ranch work up in Montana, dig postholes in frozen ground, shave sheep with electric barber clippers, dehorn cows, wring the necks of chickens and shuck their feathers in pots of scalding water, shovel boxcar loads of green horse manure in one-hundred-degree heat. The Lost Get-Back Boogie
Some occult influence was at work upon me throughout those dark hours, I am positively certain.
I've done abseiling and rock climbing and rope courses and stuff - it usually takes me hours to work up the courage, and everyone gets annoyed with me, but I always do it in the end.
In kissing a girl whose experience with osculation is limited, it is a good think to work up to the kissing of the lips.
On the contrary, if there were any of these compounded Bodies, in which the Nature of one Element did not prevail over the rest, but they were all equally mix'd, and a match one for the other; then one of them would not abate the Force of the other, any more than its own Force is abated by it, but they would work upon one another with equal Power, and the Operation of any one of them would not be more conspicuous than that of the rest; and this Body would be far from being like to any one of the Elements, but would be as if it had nothing _contrary_ to its The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan
The officer called a gunner from his own ship and set him to work upon the Oerlikon; she left it reluctantly and went back on board his ship with him. The Breaking Wave
These games are a fond childhood memory, but I just can't work up the same enthusiasm for them now. octopod The EXAMINE'd Life: Keeping Interactive Fiction Alive - Boing Boing
She was glad of her work up at the Castle to distract her from her grief. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
B-RAS are multiservice platforms, installed at the edge of the network upstream of the DSLAM, and used for such functions as termination of PPP sessions and to provide a central collection point for data that can be used to bill customers for their network and service usage. Juniper’s big day?
Your creative talents can also be put to good use, if you can work up the energy.
I'd dropped a hint about having an exhibition of his work up here.
It has obtained such reputation as it possesses, partly because of its invention or improvement of the fable of "Surrey and Geraldine"; more, and more justly, because it does work up a certain amount of historical material -- the wars of Henry VIII. in French Flanders -- into something premonitory (with a little kindness on the part of the premonished) of the great and long missed historical novel; still more for something else. The English Novel
For Belvett the opportunity to get the work up on its feet and present it with basic lights and sound was valuable with post-show talkbacks proving especially useful.
Yemeni government officials told us they hoped to place the men in what they called a rehabilitation camp, where experts would try to dissuade them of violence, offer them counseling, medical care and job training, and help them find work upon their release. Human Rights Watch: Obama's Yemen Problem
You might be able to work up a little magic if you practiced first. CHARMED LIFE
Erith's extreme architectural restraint was typical of his work up to the mid 1950s.
The next thing was to set the village tailor at work upon a coat of that thick strong leather, dressed soft and pliant, which they called buff, to wear under his armour. St. George and St. Michael Volume I
Painters often use the medium to make lightning sketches in situ to work up into larger finished oils back at the studio. Times, Sunday Times
Our special effects expert did indeed work up some mechanism for getting the pizza out of the box and onto the roof, using fishline or somesuch. Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 2 “Caballo Sin Nombre” is Set to the Sounds of America | /Film
Sipping ales and arguing into the afternoon gave us the opportunity to work up a hearty appetite.
The woman engineer is at work upon an advanced apparatus to be used in predicting earthquake.
The carpenter who built a farmer's house differentiated it from the barn by putting what he called scroll work up under the eaves and by building at the front a porch with carved posts. Poor White
As for me, one of the many advantages to the noon - 2 party time was that it wasn't long enough to work up too expensive a tab, anyway.
Work up the blind, then tack top edges together. Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
Your class gave me the tools to understand the forces at work upon my conscience and to make a reasoned decision.
You never know, you may work up an appetite for real food, not greasies.
Work up an appetite in the beautiful pool, or soak up splendid views of the North Sea coast.
At this late stage, the elites found themselves forced to work upon the increasingly dysfunctional myths.
Besides their cloths, however, they work up a considerable quantity of camblets, callimancoes, and baizes, chiefly red and spotted, for domestic consumption. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
He knew he had by his sin grieved the Spirit and provoked him to with draw, and that because he also was flesh God might justly have said that his Spirit should no more strive with him nor work upon him, Gen. vi. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Martos said that Grewal was described as a controlling and jealous husband who called Kaur at work up to 30 times a day. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
It took him ten years to work up to the position of general manager.
These bizarre screeching sounds turn into horn samples, which, though they never quite resolve themselves, manage to work up an atmosphere of a nauseated euphony.
I also need to work up another piece for "Detective Mac" involving smoky saxophones (it's all the skunkweed, you know.) It's just another game of Confuse-A-Cat really
I went for a walk to work up an appetite for breakfast.
I have been trying to work up to sewing some clothing for quite awhile since I still have 45 yards of silk noil waiting and much of my current wardrobe is strangely shrinking. Archive 2007-06-07
For a composer to take part in building up a national style in this way, there were two requisites; he must have original power within himself, and he must have national musical traits to work upon.
He could then do some exercising to work up a sweat before moving into the tepidarium which would prepare him for the caldarium which was more or less like a modern sauna.
I'd begin from the ancient Roman ideal of manliness - which is the root of our term virtue [vir is Latin for man] - and work up through the weakening of that ideal of manliness by Christianity, and on towards Rousseau's bourgeois man before turning to Hemingway and such figures as Michael Landon as Pa Ingalls [here I would be indebted to Dutch.] Archive 2006-06-18
The presidential candidate was trying to work up more support before the election.
She was glad of her work up at the Castle to distract her from her grief. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
It took him ten years to work up to the position of general manager.
And if man, according to his moral part, be (as he says) defectible, how can the indefectibility of tradition be founded in those arguments which work upon man only according to his moral part? The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10.
If I'm carving or spokeshaving small details, I want the work up in my eyes, and then use a smaller vise on the end of a stick held by the large vise.
The icy temperatures lend themselves to pig slaughtering: harmful bacteria do not multiply, the meat keeps for longer without deep-freezing, and the pig slaughterers work up less of a sweat. Budapest Times
Given the right conditions, we have always been able to work up a bit of shopping frenzy. Times, Sunday Times
Another enemy of pines is the fungus, especially the white, thread-like spores of the purpled stemmed boletus, which often penetrates and disrupts the bark of the roots, forming a white network upon the roots. Beachwood-in-the-Pines « Beachwood Historical Alliance
You might be able to work up a little magic if you practiced first. CHARMED LIFE
Jonathan looked at her with an embarrassed smile, ‘I actually I was considering asking you along but couldn't work up the nerve.’
For Goddess pilgrims, as for orthodox religious pilgrims, the sacred place is a place of power which can work upon the pilgrim at various levels of their being.
Two goals in three minutes, gave the game the firework up the jacksy it required, while also killing it off as a realistic contest.
Despite lots of grinding and gurgling noises, we have failed to work up sufficient steam and the results seem a bit tepid. Times, Sunday Times
Professor Langley is at work upon it with new and specially constructed apparatus, including a "bolometer" so sensitive that, whereas previous experimenters have thought themselves fortunate if they could get deflections of ten or twelve galvanometric divisions to work with, he easily obtains three or four hundred. Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884
The framework up down to ensure of cleaning rapidly equably.
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon ” and indeed they have a plentiful harvest ” I think what you call flagrancy was never more in fashion. Letters of Horace Walpole 01
Parload is a famous man now, a great figure in a great time, his work upon intersecting radiations has broadened the intellectual horizon of mankind for ever, and I, who am at best a hewer of intellectual wood, a drawer of living water, can smile, and he can smile, to think how I patronized and posed and jabbered over him in the darkness of those early days. In the Days of the Comet
Then all the foreign matter, the defilement which earth pours into them, falls to the ground, and into them the trout work up for life and health and food; and through their swift yet yielding eddies -- _moulding themselves to every accident_, _yet separate and undefiled_ -- shine up the delicate beauties of the subaqueous world, the Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife
Painters often use the medium to make lightning sketches in situ to work up into larger finished oils back at the studio. Times, Sunday Times
In ashtanga yoga, also known as power yoga, you'll work up a sweat through physical exertion.
It is therefore not surprising that the majority of the Committee began by taking its work uppishly and carelessly. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
I can't work up any enthusiasm for his idea.
Hunting season is upon us, and some of you may want to work up a new load to take afield this fall.
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How did you manage to work up sufficient trust in this man to down all of the concoctions that he put before you?
When I look upon these people who are being trained with this attitude, and work up a good sweat with them, I feel a sort of inexpressible sorrow along with a great responsibility.
Painters often use the medium to make lightning sketches in situ to work up into larger finished oils back at the studio. Times, Sunday Times
Particularly stubborn stains will guarantee you work up a sweat. The Sun
Is her schoolwork up to scratch?
A careful study of Krafft-Ebing's monumental work upon the subject should convince our lawyers that they could not proceed in these cases without the assistance of the alienist and of those who are experts in the diagnosis of the various forms of patho-sexualism. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science
They were obliged conftantly to work upwards againft an impetuous 'current, that frequently overlet their boats, or filled them with water. History of the War with America, France, Spain, and Holland: Commencing in ...
The men, now that they found that they had plenty to eat, began to show signs of laziness, and did not very readily commence the work upon the xebeque. The Privateersman
Davy Jones they did salute the raising of the neat little burgee that had a silver fox fashioned in silken hand-work upon it. The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers
The cloath & bags are both at work upon, & my aunt has bought a beautifull ermin trimming for my cloak. Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771
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The great iron chainwork upholding the four large pillars of the transept running the length of the triforium in four directions still exists, and is justly famous. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
All you really need for a good rösti, however, is some firm potatoes, parboiled to give a soft, melting interior, and fried in plenty of hot butter and goose fat until crisp, and a few mountains to climb to work up an appetite. How to cook the perfect rösti
God stretched out his hand in mercies bestowed upon them, and, when those would not work upon them, in corrections, but all were in vain; they regarded the operations of his hand no more than the declarations of his mouth. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
It's strange, but I can't work up any enthusiasm for going on this trip.
He plunged himself into work upon his arrival.
We'll start with lower ones, and then work up to our closest relatives, the chimpanzee and bonobo.
It took the company quite some years to work up a market for its products.
I have been half-heartedly trying to draft a post, but couldn't quite work up any enthusiasm.
A somewhat similar swelling, often as large as an egg, is sometimes seen over the kneepan, more often in those who work upon their knees, hence the name housemaid's knee. The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)
Work up to a moderate steady skate at 65% - 75% max, pushing off with more force and range of motion and driving your arms forward instead of side to side while in a tuck position.
Particularly stubborn stains will guarantee you work up a sweat. The Sun
It used to be that professors proudly wrote about topics so minuscule that not even their fellow scholars could work up an appetite for the unnourishing results. An Exquisite Slogger
I'd dropped a hint about having an exhibition of his work up here.
In Couples, however, it is ultimately the community that rots under the weight of accumulated fornication: wives go to therapy to understand their unhappiness aka, "frigidity" and one ultimately work up the courage to leave her husband. Adultery Carnival: John Updike's Couples and the Sexual Revolution
The Methodists love your big sinners as proper subjects to work upon -- and indeed they have a plentiful harvest -- I think what you call flagrancy was never more in fashion. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
It's all very well for you to maledict the curtain, Carl, but you must work up to it. Revenge!
The background makes it fun to pick your favorite archfiends, and easy to work up a ‘reason’ for the battle… I like the idea of exploring the politics of Hell.
He had need, he said, of my professional services; he felt much under the weather; could I give him something which would brace him up a bit; he had some important chemical work on hand which he could not afford to put by; in fact, he didn't mind saying that he was at work upon a table of atomical pitches to match The Darrow Enigma
Network upgrades are an interesting way of patching an operating system and its applications.
They are not only functional for bicycling, but for any activity where you are going to work up a sweat.
Is it OK if I make the work up next week?
The woman without a word piled fresh billets of wood upon the fire and set to work with bellows to work up a blaze. Flying Colours
He finds true peace and redemption for himself and those who love him only when he is able to give his work up as a sacrifice to God.
Given the right conditions, we have always been able to work up a bit of shopping frenzy. Times, Sunday Times
Of course a man can, if he chooses, get in extra steps enough to keep his feet warm, but we contend that no quadrille, where they only touch hands, go down in the middle, and alamand left, can work upon a man's religion enough to cause him to backslide. Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882
Work up the blind, then tack top edges together. Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
Included in the show are table covers, needlework patterns, needle worked fire screens, valances for mantels and beds, needlework upholstery, and sewing tools.
That was when I realised that the camera had stayed in its case all the way, and that I'd missed an opportunity to grab townscape shots from which to work up pictures of the kind I am hankering to paint.
When you're fully relaxed, use a brush or a loofah and plenty of shower gel or soap to work up a lather.
Then they live in close communities, and marry "in-and-in," so that the effect of unhealthy living becomes strengthened into hereditary disease; and habitual intemperance does its work upon their constitutions, though the quantities of raw spirits they consume appear to produce scarcely any immediate effect. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
I'm trying to work up enough courage to go to the dentist.
Pilots were opposing company proposals to roster them to work up to the limit of the hours they are licensed to fly under Irish Aviation Authority regulations.
Reflections on Sentimental DiSerencea in Points of Faith, intended as an Introduction to a larger Work upon the capital Subjects in Dispute, 1752," 8vo, "Iteflectiona upon Theatrical Expression in Tragedy; with a proper Intro - duction and Appendix, 1755," 8vo. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical ...
She was glad of her work up at the Castle to distract her from her grief. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
The plan was to pick a middle-of-the-road load to start, and then work up to a safe maximum in reasonable increments.
The British crown possessed an ancient right to seize for naval service ‘seamen, seafaring men and persons whose occupations or callings are to work upon vessels and boats upon rivers’.
It took me two months to work up the courage to ask her out and the relief and elation when she said yes was immeasurable.
Holding that kind of work up out of pique is really and truly outrageous and deserves to be described as such unleavened by strained efforts to hit both sides. Matthew Yglesias » Fair and Balanced
You can really work up a sweat doing housework.
Included in the show are table covers, needlework patterns, needle worked fire screens, valances for mantels and beds, needlework upholstery, and sewing tools.
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It took him ten years to work up to the position of general manager.

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