"I went digging" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an activity you did, either in the past or present. For example: "Yesterday, I went digging in my garden for some potatoes that I planted."
I went digging among my books and found what I was looking for: Clive James's "Unreliable Memoirs".
On a steamy summer morning in 1994, I went digging through Aaron's attic for the letters he had saved.
I went digging back into other lectures and I don't think I've done it yet, and if I have you're going to have to listen to it twice, but I don't think I have.
But when I went digging into the history of the Web to find out where online comments really came from, it's clear that they're the consequences of what was technically feasible at a certain point and how that feasibility was subsequently implemented.
And there's an anecdote about Hamilton — I went digging to see if I could find ultimate verification and I can't find ultimate verification, but I'm going to offer it anyway because there is a supposed witness to the story, but people aren't sure whether to believe the witness.
I couldn't even remember the title until I went digging on Amazon.
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If I don't go digging around on the internet and really try to find the good bands, I'm not going to find them.
"They offer them to us for free," she said, "so I don't go digging around for any other information".
"I thought I'd have to go digging for my size.
