“I'm looking for a studio in the range of about $1200 a month, preferably downtown.”

You're trying to find an apartment in a new city that you're going to move to. You want to use a real estate agent to help you find it. You find the e-mail address of a real estate agent on the Internet and begin writing an e-mail to her. You write:

I'm looking for a studio under $1200 a month, preferably downtown.

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“The guy in the apartment right below me seems to be having some construction done.”

Your apartment is noisy because people are hammering, cutting things, and yelling in the apartment that's under yours. You're explaining the problem to a friend of yours:

The guy in the apartment right below me seems to be having some construction done.

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“I've had to walk up and down six flights of stairs all week.”

You live on the 6th floor of an apartment building. This week, the elevator has been broken. You're telling a friend about it:

I've had to walk up and down six flights of stairs all week.

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