Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 2 | In this sense professionals have already attempted to break down the norms of public discourse to bring on the clients of welfare who have suffered in silence . |
| 3 | Few can afford those sorts of funds : Maxwell was finally forced to close down the London Daily News in 1987 in the face of mounting costs . |
| 4 | For example , you are often asked to write down the numbers of the questions answered in the order in which they are attempted . |
| 5 | Police inquiries have so far failed to track down the culprits and now the victim has appealed for his heroic rescuer to come forward and help the investigation . |
| 6 | According to the script , after an initial twenty minutes of Anglo-Saxon bombardment , the Turks would be weeping with fear and humiliation , and devoting much of their on-field activities to figuring out ways of being granted political asylum , rather than returning home to their doubtless murderous regime , where they would be summarily sent to work down the sewers for ten years . |
| 7 | Robin Horton , in a widely cited article on African systems of thought ( 1967 ) , likewise attempted to break down the elements of scientific thinking in order to demonstrate that so-called ‘ primitive ’ peoples such as the Azande did in fact make use of the same elements of thought , although applied to different content . |