Sentence examples similar to hand dug up from inspiring English sources

A newspaper's library, for those not conversant with the antediluvian ways of pre-Web journalism, is where research materials were stored, and articles from the major papers were carefully clipped and sorted by subject, then filed neatly away in metal cabinets, to be dug up — by hand, imagine — when reporters were looking for background on a piece.

If dug up by hand it would have required many men three days work and the planes to remain operational would have to be moved to the steel matting along the runway.

Dozens of bodies bearing gunshot and knife wounds, their hands or feet bound, were dug up between the weeds and summer cottages of Dachny, an abandoned settlement a few hundred yards from the Khankala base.

The heaviest concentration of soldiers was on the road from Pyongyang's airport (no military planes visible): hundreds of conscripts, shovels in hand, were digging up a park and planting trees.

Blogs, on the other hand, mostly rely on information that has already been dug up by traditional journalists.

Kimmel dug up a photo of Barrymore, at age 7, handing Diana an "E.T".

I cooked up some salsify last week, after Ms. Brodowski dug up a few hairy, forked roots in the heirloom garden, and handed them to me to take home.

They dug up the bodies of the people they knew with their bare hands.

We dug up two vagrants in Lambeth and asked them about the dead animals in their hands.

Londoners dug up other Londoners.

Others have been dug up in Iran.