Sentence examples for began tunnelling from inspiring English sources

My street was no sooner beautifully repaved than Thames Water began tunnelling through the asphalt on both sides.

Further fighting occurred around the battalion's position as the Ottoman troops began tunnelling under the "no man's land" that divided the two lines.

Late in the month the Ottomans began tunnelling around "Quinn's Post" in the Anzac sector and early in the morning of 29 May, despite Australian counter-mining, the Ottomans detonated a mine and attacked with a battalion from the 14th Regiment.

Larvae then hatch from the eggs in the leaf litter on the forest floor and begin tunnelling, in search of suitable host roots.

The miners there began by tunnelling well past the stranded machine; then they sent in rescue teams from two directions at once.

Tunnelling began in 1988, and the 50.5 km tunnel was officially opened by the British sovereign Queen Elizabeth II and the French President François Mitterrand at a ceremony in Calais on 6 May 1994.

Tunnelling began on the £35 million route in February 1972 and the Jubilee line opened north from Charing Cross in May 1979.

With the tacit support of the Hungarian army, 150,000 Turks laid siege to Vienna, succeeded in capturing the outer fortifications, and began to tunnel to the inner walls.

But after Egypt's military toppled the nation's Islamist president last year, the new government blamed Hamas for a rise in militant activity in the Sinai Peninsula and began destroying tunnels.

Israel has begun digging tunnels beneath Israeli-controlled zones to connect Palestinian areas with one another.

Indeed, he launched a thousand hot takes when he tweeted, last week, that he had "received verbal govt approval" to begin digging tunnels along the Eastern seaboard.