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1 In order to find the man, we had to excavate for him.
2 Some years ago, one fine day in May, I was helping excavate for the foundation of a new barn.
3 She ran to the chalk digger, whose business it was to excavate for chalk, and told him the situation.
4 A few years later it fell to my lot to excavate for the Government the funeral temple of Thutmosis III.
5 But although they excavated for yards about the area, they uncovered nothing else.
6 The company will do stabilising work before excavating for gold under the open pit.
7 Excavate for each tree a hole three feet in diameter and three feet deep.
8 They excavated for two weeks-withthe result you know.
9 Biskupin had been carefully excavated for almost a decade.
10 The old city had been ignored until parts of it were excavated for underground tours.
11 The diggers excavating for the new building had all been parked over on the far side.
12 Sometimes this is gained by lowering the grates to the floor line and excavating for an ashpit.
13 Suppose they had excavated for a cellar!
14 It seems that some workmen, excavating for a building, came across the ruins of a nineteenth century city.
15 If Goosal can tell where to begin excavating for the city he ought to tell the professor, not us.
16 I've been excavating for decades.'
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