build up a head of steam

She was really building up a head of steam here.

It was an auspicious sign for a relationship which very quickly built up a head of steam.

"It was scary seeing those guys building up a head of steam, coming at you.

Hale in particular is building up a head of steam, though so far he has taken the news with deceptive calm.

"The elephants walk very quickly, and in the tunnel they build up a head of steam.

I get a lot more done that way, because I build up a head of steam."

With the support of the newspaper he soon builds up a head of steam and looks likely to be elected.

The song stops and starts, and never really builds up a head of steam.

In the first section, the song picks up speed like a locomotive building up a head of steam.

When the movie builds up a head of steam, it's dazzling and protean, and almost anything seems possible.

The Prince was building up a head of steam, as he often did when the subject of Ix came up.

Crusade ... I mean she'd really built up a head of steam when I saw her.

For twenty minutes Armstead remained in place, constantly drumming his fingers on the desk, gradually building up a head of steam.

There was a certain jerkiness to his movements, a terseness in his voice, that warned he was building up a head of steam.

Goodman, and a combination of luck and good defending/ goalkeeping was sufficient to keep out Leeds when we managed to build up a head of steam.

I had had plenty of time in the "secure lounge" to build up a head of steam, and Julio Cassata wasn't making it go away.

You see, a warp bubble- " "No speech here, folks," said Riker, cutting the engineer off before he could build up a head of steam.

I was building up a head of steam that would carry me into Islamic fundamentalism, the lack of a Tajik-speaking case officer to meet my cleric, and more.

The ex-cruiser was in harbour for repairs to her main engines and during the afternoon she built up a head of steam and began to carry out a slow-speed trial.

O'Neill told him to "build up a head of steam" in February 2010, saying he was concerned that Heskey's injuries were denying him from producing his best form.

Yes, well . . . now that I've waxed on . . . built up a head of steam, I suppose we must reluctantly start with Picard.

"Our expectation is that it would take a period of time for H.O.V. to build up a head of steam and grow in usage," Mr. Kulewicz said.

Having spent a few blissful days lolling in the sea on Montenegro's Adriatic coast - the main draw for most visitors to this small Balkan country - we'd built up a head of steam for a challenge.

A. I guess if I had to talk about disappointments I think it would be the failure to resolve the merger issue of the cops and to really build up a head of steam with the Transit Authority police.

Divide and conquer is certainly building up a head of steam on these pages, if those of you in the private sector are so sure the grass is greener on the other side why didn't you defect years ago and get yourselves a nice little sinacure?