I knew what he was building up to tell me.

Over the last few years China has been building up its military.

You'd have a chance to build up a police force.

I had even built up quite a good knowledge of medical terms.

I'm going to work with you and build up the business first.

We hope to build the thing up during the next three or four weeks.

George went to the living room to build up his fire again.

The way the news media built him up, he could not be anything else.

Only with great effort was a new system built up after the war.

What would happen if people spent it building up a work history instead?