Why not give me some time to work up to this?

Now, she'd worked herself up to the point of doing a little playing.

He continued to work up to his death in 2000.

He worked up to 1959, the year of his death.

Eventually, he worked up to 26 or 27 miles in training.

For the last four years, we've been trying to work up to this one day.

Men and women had to work up to 76 hours a week.

He soon works his way up to the top again, however.

In the summer, he works up to 12 hours a day.

The rest of the year he works up to 18 hours a day.