Example sentences of "be [verb] up [prep] the very " in BNC.

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1 A number of significant problems for the distinction between anaphora and discourse deixis have been thrown up by the very considerable body of work on pronominalization ( see Lyons , 1977b ; Lyons , 1977a : 662ff for a review ; and for recent work , see e.g. Heny & Schnelle , 1979 ) .
2 PJ , however , is lining up with the very best .
3 Indeed it is a feature of this scene that the tension is kept up to the very last pizzicato , and of course it is no accident that Britten , when he made the concert version of the fourth interlude , had to jump to the last two pages of the act to get his conclusion .
4 As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic .
5 This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany .
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