dig down

Example Sentences

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When they started to dig down they escalated the issue to the council, who then called in specialist engineers and contractors.

From BBC

Alison said she hoped he and other officers "dig down into their memories, be honest about their failings, unearth their deeply buried consciences and tell the whole truth."

From BBC

“I trust these guys. They want to win and they’re upset that we lost. And we have a choice — we can emotionally, mentally check out and just kind of go through the motions or we can dig down. And I know these guys are going to dig down.”

From Los Angeles Times

“When you dig down into what a lot of psychological therapies are doing, they are often trying to change either how much people are thinking about themselves or the content of what they are thinking about themselves.”

From Salon

Or, as Renée Ballard says, dig down.

From Los Angeles Times