Sentence examples for before tunnelling from inspiring English sources

To get closer to the bank, it seems the burglars crawled through the sewage pipe – said to be between 40cm and a metre high – before tunnelling for a further four metres and emerging among the bank's vaults.

δ(i) means initial settlements from the allowable pile load before tunnelling.

The plans also include installing two ventilation and emergency access shafts at Kennington Green and Kennington Park; and building two temporary shafts to allow ground stabilisation work before tunnel building begins.

Construction of the highway, done by Herndon and Thompson Inc., was finished before tunnel work began.

The guide wire was re-positioned before tunnel reaming if indicated.

Intra-operative fluoroscopy was introduced (when available) to verify the position of the guidewire before tunnel reaming.

Intra-operative fluoroscopy revealed the position of the tibial guide wire to be unsatisfactory in three patients (15%), and the wire was therefore re-positioned before tunnel reaming.

Before the train tunneled underground, my phone buzzed in my tote bag, alight with another text from Jonathan: Leaving Sunday.

They considered more than ninety possibilities, including an undersea tunnel, before deciding to build a bridge.

Before Mont Blanc, tunnel engineers were divided on the benefit of sprinkler systems.

It was a week before the tunnel cooled enough for forensic investigators to recover bodies.