The phrase 'recover documents' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to either the act of finding lost or misplaced documents, or the act of restoring computer files from backups or archives. For example: "We had to do a system restore to recover the documents we'd lost."
Mr. Hardin said lawyers for Andersen were working hard to preserve and recover documents.
"Not only can computer forensic techniques recover documents, but they can inform investigators when and how they were deleted," he said.
Acton Davis told the inquiry about the difficulties that had been encountered during attempts to recover documents concerning the events at Danny Boy and Camp Abu Naji.
Still, he said the heirs' attempt to recover documents from Mr. Belafonte was "inconsistent with, and, really, a denigration of, the love and integrity that their dad had for the people who worked with him".
Top aides to Mr. Préval, who was at his private residence elsewhere in the city when the earthquake struck, sought to get into the damaged palace to recover documents they said were highly sensitive.
The executed warrants sought to recover documents as far back as 1998, and agents seized records relating to a local bar, a defunct minor league basketball team and the city's housing authority.
Mr. Qureshi said the police had recovered documents in Mr. Sheikh's handwriting, which then became e-mail messages.
The recovered documents show that MI5 also handed its Libyan counterparts a number of questions about this man, to be put to the two rendition victims.
Another of the recovered documents is a letter that Tony Blair wrote to Gaddafi in April 2007, and whose existence publicly emerged last week.
In Afghanistan, Mr. Tenet said, the United States had recovered documents that showed that Osama bin Laden was pursuing a sophisticated biological weapons research program.
Detectives have interviewed a number of potential victims after recovering documents at Richmond and other local authorities, and, earlier this month, seized files from a former child protection worker.
