Sentence examples for which he dug from inspiring English sources

On one of my first dates with Norman [Cook, her husband] he had crab which he dug into primally with his hands.

The Scot had started in superb fashion by breaking in Gasquet's first service game but was hauled back level at 4-4 and forced into a tie-break, which he dug out after saving one set point.

Yet it was the manner in which he dug himself out of that hole, with his Philadelphia speech on the race question, that convinced a cadre of experienced Chicago Democrats such as David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel that Obama was the one.

Take, for example, his 1973 Sunday Times series, "The Bland Leaders," in which he dug deep into the marketing – but also the recipes – of the best-selling brands available in supermarkets, Heinz Baked Beans, Wall's Pork Sausages, Harp Lager, Coca Cola and Libby's Orange Drink.

Instead, thrown back on his own resources as an independent filmmaker malgré lui, he has made "The Canyons" (financed through Kickstarter), a fierce reckoning with Hollywood, and "Dog Eat Dog," in which he dug into the cinematic mythology that has nourished, and sometimes deluded, him and more or less everyone else.

Venkitachalam is a handsome, deeply religious, 48-year-old bachelor with a neat salt-and-pepper beard, which he digs his fingers into as he talks.

But by far the biggest crowd-pleasers come during his encore, for which he digs up an old Randy routine ("I can't believe how stupid those jokes are"), ruminates on the similarities between buying bed sheets and drugs, and sounds off on his pet subject, R Kelly, with the suggestion that the rapper start putting together his own dictionary: "Vegeburger – like when a cheeseburger tastes weird".

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

He buried her in a shallow grave which he had dug in preparation for the murder.

Fields wrote: Uncle John had a boat which he had dug out of a large tree, the bottom of which he had flattened.

Journalist Lee Hall used to edit the Official Football Manager magazine and now writes for the Professional Footballers Association Magazine, for which he recently dug up a story about Alex McLeish.