Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they can be incredibly frustrating when something goes wrong because it 's so hard to get down to a nitty gritty level to sort out your problems . |
| 2 | Nigel Duerdoth of the National Federation of Housing Associations thinks that the new payment system for hostels is ‘ most likely to break down in the inner cities — the areas where stress is greatest and hostels are most concentrated and needed ’ . |
| 3 | Curzon was more difficult to drive down to the provinces . |
| 4 | Students seem much more inclined to knuckle down to the work and not get involved in quite such dramatic protests as they were before . |
| 5 | it is also helpful to note down on the card idiomatic phrases using the lexical item in question , or illustrative sentences to show its range of meaning . |
| 6 | Social workers and their managers are clearly ready to knuckle down to the task of making the policy work for users . |
| 7 | Pig 64 , on the other hand , are as difficult to pin down as a greased pig on rollerskates . |
| 8 | She was always writing on little pieces of paper , which she kept in a locked drawer in her room , and every morning she got up surprisingly early to go down to the kitchen . |
| 9 | Despite the growth of the disabled people 's movement these paper professionals still think it quite normal to sit down round the table and decide what 's best for us . |
| 10 | Sometimes , such defences can be almost impossible to break down on a person-to-person level . |
| 11 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 12 | By first establishing a formal highpoint , the critics are then able to look down upon the content , ‘ objectively ’ pointing out the division which they claim exists ( which in fact they have helped to construct ) between the two . |
| 13 | If a visit there had been less pressing she 'd have been very willing to cuddle down into the comfortable bed and let sleep blank out her problems for a while . |
| 14 | But the assumption that all morality means sexual morality is too widespread to go down without a few squawks of protest . |
| 15 | They won because Gloucester , brave and energetic and often on top in the second half , took too long to close down on the former Eire winger Jeff Chandler . |