In fact, with Amsterdam already under sea level, digging down meant the Rijksmuseum flooded.
"I was digging down through this stuff, it was literally like banging your hammer on a frozen cement floor, " he recalls.
In sun, rain or snow she was up there, digging down through the turf and the fibrous black peat until she hit bare rock.
The added cost of digging down the extra couple of feet needed to make a basement for a house in the Northeast is relatively small, he said.
Valarmadhy inches forward, using small tools to clear a strip 1m (40in) wide, digging down to 6in - the accepted safety depth - to ensure there are no mines between herself and the nearest visible mine.
In London, construction to renovate Ms. Stunt's Chelsea home, including installing a 25-foot wide aquarium and digging down dozens of feet to create a 10, 000-square-foot basement with an indoor pool, squash court, gym, beauty salon and spa, has sparked ire.
He is digging his way down from the computer room, which collapsed onto the music room.
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He had brought rather non-standard electricity to it, digging his own trench down from the house, but even more ingeniously, he had made a little hole, about two inches square, in the plywood of the wall facing the house and put a tiny swing latch on it.
People down here have spent years digging in their fertilizers and manure, and it's just remote.
As he did with General Growth, Miller focuses on digging up companies that have been beaten down by scary headlines but also have the sort of strong underlying earnings power to snap back--"coiled springs, " in Miller's terminology.
Jimmy Davis told CNN he'd spotted the hole Dykes was digging on his property when Dykes moved in down the road from him.
One which, says rescue worker Kahlid Kange(ph), gave everyone digging at the site a terrifying jolt and brought down half a building overlooking it.
In Gough Square, in front of Samuel Johnson's tall and staring house, I stopped for a while to watch a workman digging up a drain, taking the opportunity to gaze down into the rich strata that lay beneath the London pavement.
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Neighbor Jimmy Davis told CNN that Dykes began digging a hole on his property soon after he moved in down the road from him.
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Down along the scenic coastline of South Africa, Professor Christopher Henshilwood is digging up the anthropological proof of our human African origins.
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