Sentence examples for doing the digging from inspiring English sources

The plan wasn't to establish mines but, rather, to make deals with the people doing the digging.

Just hours after Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, warned delegates against doing the "spade work" for opposition parties by turning on their leader, Sir Menzies inadvertently became the one doing the digging.

But if many archaeologists are far less interested in trying to corroborate the exact biblical accounts of Israel's ancient past than in how the area's ancient history fits into the larger picture of the Middle East, that change of perspective, Ms. Marcus said, reflects an intellectual shift among the people doing the digging.

But the president apparently doesn't want anyone he hasn't appointed doing the digging.

He sang from the perspective of a man being buried alive and I sang from the perspective of the guy doing the digging.

Their mission was still officially one of rescue, but those doing the digging worked urgently, with the knowledge that their task could soon turn to just recovery.

(They still do the digging; they just lost the sign).

The kooky Mrs. Frankweiler sends them into her cabinets to do the digging.

Field beans, lupins and grazing ryes do the digging for you.

He said that he had done the digging at the house himself "because I didn't get a permit".

Having done the digging, I would now simply say that "infeasible" has more intellectual defenders and is more common today.