I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dig a ditch
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Ditches were dug to prevent the river from flooding.
dig a grave
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In the churchyard, a man was digging a grave.
dig a tunnel
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Burglars had dug a tunnel under the building in an attempted raid.
dig in your pocket (= put your hand in your pocket to find something )
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Boris dug in his pocket for his keys.
digging...hole
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I began digging a hole for the plant.
digs...pit
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The female digs a pit in which to lay the eggs.
dug...trench
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Workers dug a trench for gas lines.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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I dug around for my passport.
deep
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They comprise pits dug deep into the ground, lined with logs, and covered with a low cairn of stones.
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With the chips down, we had to dig deep .
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So to survive I put my head right down and dug deep .
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It never ceases to amaze me what human beings can do when they have to dig deep .
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The struggle to explore the inner space of their materials has driven sculptors to dig deep .
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So the generous trio decided to dig deep into their own pockets to give the staff a four percent boost.
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They dig deep especially to maintain the under-21 resources.
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Thereafter, McKenzie had to dig deep into his resources to reach the final bell.
deeper
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The woman was a typical example, officers found, as they dug deeper into the secret life of Thomas Courtney.
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Ignore them and dig deeper , where some truly good stuff can frequently be found.
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It includes, for those who wish to dig deeper , over 400 references, many to current literature.
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And for those who dug deeper there was no blame and no clear enemy - all was reducible to unconscious hurt.
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If the weather had held and still been hot and dry would they have dug deeper ?
down
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Each time she does so, the male has to dig down to the buried vegetation and cover it over again.
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You have to dig down deep, to make it possible for millions and millions.
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Who wants to dig down that far?
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So Vince Carter dug down and played defense to block Duncan's last shot.
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She's just a mass of opinions - when you dig down , it's amazing how little she knows.
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A backhoe dug down to the damaged culvert in the bottom while a crew assembled another culvert up on top.
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She dug down to the water's edge and the water flowed into it.
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My shoulders hunched up, my hands dug down into my pockets, each gesture made was grand as the movies.
freshly
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He looks for freshly dug dirt, or tracks.
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Tom Kitain to its freshly dug grave by a grove of olive and cypress trees.
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Richard Lombu, standing next to a freshly dug mass grave, also remembers the scene.
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One of our men spotted a freshly dug fighting position.
in
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The crisis came at 5-5 in the second game, by which time Horner had begun to dig in.
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Then dig in as much organic material as possible.
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They started to dig in to help me put this thing together.
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On his second wave he took a steep drop and his nose dug in .
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When it comes to crunch time, Bill Clinton digs in to defend the status quo.
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About a hundred yards along the path I could see guns that were dug in fairly close together.
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The tiny shops dug in , held, multiplied.
out
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Crumbling and porous material is best dug out and replaced by new.
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Well, it was Paul Bunyan who dug out the Mississippi River.
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Colin dug out a huge carrier bag.
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Moving briskly, Wade dug out a plastic garbage bag, marched into the living room, and collected the dead houseplants.
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It was a nightmare of a trip, the trucks constantly breaking through the crust and having to be dug out .
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He began to dig out the sand with his hands.
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A Dig out the clumps of roots and divide them into smaller portions to replant or pot-up.
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The thing looked as though it had been dug out of a King Kong footprint.
up
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The disruption caused by a second spell in which roads and pavements are dug up would be too great.
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Or helping politicians dig up dirt on their opponents.
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Some fruit trees are still dug up from the nursery in autumn and sold with their roots bare.
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Back in the seventies they dug up the street for miles.
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The waiters' spoons dig up down up down in the great trifle on the world-famous dessert trolley.
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Librarians research facts and dig up needed footage that is filed in a tape room.
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It gets the same with people saying the grass should be dug up .
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They dug up only a few of the ferns.
■ NOUN
canal
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Of the men who actually dug the canals we know less.
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It constructs roads, flattens hills, digs canals , builds harbours, employs workers, contracts for services.
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Shrimp farmers dig canals to bring salt water to enclosed areas where shrimps are cultured.
ditch
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Later they dug ditches for drainage but did not raise the natural platforms artificially.
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The rest of the gaggle were going home to dig more ditches and haul more stumps.
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There was a mound of earth that had evidently been dug out of a ditch .
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He lined the shelter with rock and mud to keep out the cold and dug a ditch to divert the rain.
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In the picture are two men, almost interchangeable, working side by side as they dig a ditch .
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I dug ditches along the company road.
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Researchers dig deep, straight-walled ditches and search up and down the wall of earth for signs of shaking.
earth
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He stopped, and dug in the earth floor with a stick.
garden
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I dig the garden , or wrap my Christmas presents.
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He would wait until evening and the solitude of the rectory, and the peace of his newly dug garden .
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It was then time to dig over the kitchen garden , although we now had help.
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I phone carpenters and painters, and a funny little man with glasses to dig up my garden .
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Stay here and dig the garden .
grave
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A year ago the biotech companies' grave had been dug .
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Mass graves are already being dug .
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When the wine was finished, we went to bed, apart from those who had graves to dig .
ground
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They comprise pits dug deep into the ground , lined with logs, and covered with a low cairn of stones.
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They crossed the lonely, haunted cemetery to the shallow grave Pike had dug in the ground .
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Worst of all, it has to be dug out of the ground by expensive skilled labour.
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The men dug it out of the ground where it fell and hauled it back to the village.
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This was a substantial piece of timber, dug deep into the ground and supported by a strut at forty-five degrees.
hand
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Benjamin then dug his hand into the empty manger and plucked out the remains of the horse's feed.
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And the only way I figure we can get to it now is to dig a well by hand .
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He started to dig by hand a massive pit-at least 7m deep and 16m across-outside his back door.
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Firemen dug with their bare hands to free Gemma Kitchiner from the storage pit on her parents' farm.
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He dug his hand through the aromatic blanket and his fingers closed round an unmistakeable shape.
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There was nothing for it but to attempt to dig them out by hand .
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Within moments the man had me writhing around in agony as he dug his hands into my feet, ankles and calves.
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It was an incredible feat of engineering, dug by hand .
heel
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Firstly, there are clearly some issues where member states are beginning to dig in their heels .
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After he organized a dozen files, Manion dug in his heels and started his workday.
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Whether it can persuade the Government to dig in its heels over this issue looks very uncertain.
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I dig my heels into the sandy soil of the path.
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The others in the case became upset and dug in their heels about changing their minds.
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He argued with me but never dug in his heels .
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I had to dig my heels in to stay steady.
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Gail dug in her heels under attack.
nail
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She reached for his hand, clutched it and dug in her long nails .
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Most of them are on bare metal with nothing to dig their nails into.
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He dug his long nails into them and stumbled to the cooking pot, almost running.
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They dug their nails into his left hand.
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She dug the nail of her little finger deeply in behind the left ear.
pit
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They comprise pits dug deep into the ground, lined with logs, and covered with a low cairn of stones.
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On the fifth and final day theory was put into practice and pits were dug for latrines.
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A pit trap dug close to the entrance with a bait positioned to lure the ferret.
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All this makes for dramatic pictures, and people dig deeply into their pockets to give.
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I stood up, dug into my deep pocket , and handed over the little package.
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In their world it is not the father of the bride who digs into his pocket to pay for the wedding.
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My shoulders hunched up, my hands dug down into my pockets , each gesture made was grand as the movies.
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I do not believe the answer to every problem is simply for government to dig deeper in your pocket .
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Children were urged to dig into their pockets for a contribution and to sign the scroll themselves.
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He dug in his pocket and brought out a handful of tattered notes.
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He dug into his pocket and pulled out the few coins he had left.
trench
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We landed too close to some trenches the gooks had dug right next to the Pleime compound.
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It was terrible indeed when the trench was dug and filled with blood and the spirits of the dead flocked to it.
tunnel
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Deeper and deeper he dug , following the tunnel into the bank.
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We had some bulldozers, and they tried to dig out the tunnels .
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Trespass can therefore be committed by a person who digs a tunnel under land or who abuses the airspace.
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Everyone dug tunnels and trenches under fire, sometimes hitting hard soil and only advancing five or six yards a day.
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I could dig a tunnel round the door.
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I could dig a tunnel right out.
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Burglars smashed in the steel shutters and even dug a tunnel under the building in an attempted raid.
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Moreover the moles dug hundreds of tunnels under their line of march.
water
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Maggie sobbed with exertion as her hands dug repeatedly into the water .
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They dug into the water as though into the ground and pulled it back, piling it behind him like dirt.
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She dug down to the water's edge and the water flowed into it.
■ VERB
begin
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The crisis came at 5-5 in the second game, by which time Horner had begun to dig in.
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He began to dig out the sand with his hands.
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But by midday they had taken most of it and had begun to dig in.
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Charles began to dig for gold with a broom.
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Gary half-turned, spotted him out of the corner of one eye and began to dig again with great fervour.
help
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My mind went at once to my tulips, frozen into the black soil of the bed you helped me dig .
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The subway will get you around town, but it helps if you dig synchronized sweating.
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Or helping politicians dig up dirt on their opponents.
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At one of the seven outdoor and museum stops, professional paleontologists will help families dig for fossils.
start
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He started to dig by hand a massive pit-at least 7m deep and 16m across-outside his back door.
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They started to dig in to help me put this thing together.
try
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Example continued It's not until 1992 that the giant wakes up and tries to dig his way to the surface.
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We had some bulldozers, and they tried to dig out the tunnels.
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Just imagine him saying that to a reporter trying to dig up more dirt ... trying to stir it up a bit.
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He says that they need protection against baiters who try to dig up the sets.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"She says she doesn't want to get pregnant." "Yeah, I can dig that."
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He was paid twelve dollars an hour to dig ditches and mix cement.
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I found two dogs digging in the garden, looking for bones.
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I really dig that dress.
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Jessica dug in the sand with a small shovel.
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Some of the prisoners escaped through a tunnel they had dug under the wall.
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The whole family was out in the fields digging potatoes.
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The workmen began digging a hole in the middle of the road.
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There were two fishermen on the beach digging for worms.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Benjamin then dug his hand into the empty manger and plucked out the remains of the horse's feed.
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If there is a big quake, many homeowners would have to dig deep into their own funds, he said.
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Let us now dig a little deeper into this theory and try to appreciate Abelard's thought from within.
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They started to dig in to help me put this thing together.
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Trespass can therefore be committed by a person who digs a tunnel under land or who abuses the airspace.
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We landed too close to some trenches the gooks had dug right next to the Pleime compound.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
archaeological
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The Doctor and his companion were led across a field to an archaeological dig .
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Wanuskewin is a museum, a school, a philanthropy and an archaeological dig .
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Sad excuse for a car park, and soil left unwanted after an archaeological dig .
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We helped out on an archaeological dig in Ohio.
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Read in studio Welcome back: Large numbers of skeletons buried in a mass grave have been unearthed by an archaeological dig .
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Driving into the mountains here is like visiting an archaeological dig .
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Morris discovered the expressive potentials of photography while on an archaeological dig .
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The rate includes room, all meals, all daytime activities except a nearby archaeological dig , Belikin beer and soft drinks.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an archeological dig
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Despite my apprehension, Daphne turned out to be a wonderful companion to share digs with.
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Her come-back to the application dig died in her throat.
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Successful dig - both rabbit and ferret are in sight.
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The dig might require such a specialist, trained to handle hazardous materials.
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They would be marshalled back to their digs, proudly wearing their uniforms.