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burrowed
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Past of burrow
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Last weekend, he helped Team GB to the Davis Cup quarter-final, and burrowed further into our hearts and minds.
After her second, the England pack drove forwards and the No8 Sarah Hunter burrowed over for a try.
It has burrowed its way out of Israel's siege, with a web of tunnels from Gaza into Egypt.
Robots are sent into sewers to check for holes burrowed into the system.
"I catapulted myself over the wire on a giant rubber band, I burrowed out through the walls like one of the mites in the German cheese, I soared on home-made glider wings," he recalled.It was during one such spell, in the infamous Stalag Luft III, that he heard the sirens blare, marking the discovery of the ill-fated mass breakout known as the "Great Escape".
Long tunnels were burrowed through hills to build a road from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan, to the Laotian border, which was completed in 2008.
Pricked by a beetle that had burrowed into his ear, into his brain.
When it resumed on March 27th, Bre-X's share price burrowed deeper than had its test drillings (see chart), along with the shares of dozens of other Canadian companies prospecting in Indonesia.
Since Hamas (and other) guerrillas burrowed across the border and captured an Israeli soldier last June, Israel claims to have killed some 300 Palestinian fighters in Gaza but the Palestinians say many of those were civilians.
More provocatively, Bahman Ghobadi's Kasi az gorbehaye irani khabar nadareh (No One Knows About Persian Cats) burrowed into Tehran's underground music scene for an uneven quasi-documentary blend of limp narrative and fiery music.
The acrothoracicans are recognized as fossils primarily by their burrows, and, while their record extends back into the Devonian Period, they are particularly well represented in the Cretaceous Period, when they burrowed into a greater variety of shell-bearing invertebrates than do their modern representatives.
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