digging up

At first glance there was nothing suspicious about the group of workmen digging up the high street outside a former clothes shop.

A character reappears years later or someone's brother's cousin's daughter from five years ago starts digging up the drama again.

Construction workers were digging up pipes in the street.

When Tanton blended ecology with eugenics and immigration, he was digging up the two-century-old principles of Thomas Malthus, who first theorized that human population growth would lead to poverty and suffering.

Workers who were digging up soil near the cages were believed to have brought in contaminated soil through their shoes, Hong Kong's Culture, Sports and Tourism Secretary told local broadcaster RTHK.