Sentence examples for dug past from inspiring English sources

I dug past the peppermints and the underwear, and came up with it.

He dug past food scraps and plastic and retrieved gauze, syringes, drip bags, vials, an empty bottle of Tranxene, and an empty foil packet of Buscopan.

And I found the rich fish fumet at the heart of the fish stew delectable, once I had dug past undercooked mussels, a single shrimp and two chunks of whitefish to reach it.

He dug past the tamarind pods and sacks of dried rose petals, skipped over the cherimoyas and lemon-grass stalks until he found what he was looking for: a crate of lemons, containers of raspberries and a little pouch of shredded coconut.

Miles digs past the Young British Artists (YBA) phenomenon to reveal traces of punk.

I dig past the Hanes V-Neck and find his pants.

When the project started, Mr. Fleisher said, "the soil was so compacted, we could not dig past three inches".

But the mine is unstable, and rescue workers had to abandon efforts to dig past the main cave-in and down a ventilation shaft.

Dig past the mystery of such feats, and you discover a set of techniques and an approach to learning that is full of strikingly simple wisdom and fun.

Once you dig past the insults and accusations, the Smurthwaite story reveals something troubling about the culture on Britain's campuses.

Prideaux's script and Harris's performance, both of which dig past the myths to create a historical present, remain the best evocation of Mary Todd Lincoln's time and her place in it.