tunnel
noun
an underground passage.
had tunnelled
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past perfectof tunnel.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Really, he had made astonishing speed for one who had tunnelled his way underp. 18ground.
From The Tale of Grandfather Mole by Bailey, Arthur Scott
And there was a sorrowing Italian who had with him a string of seven children who had tunnelled and burrowed their way down the packed aisle of the smoking car and had got irretrievably scattered.
From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Morley, Christopher
In old days before the railways had tunnelled through the passes we were driving over the Fluela above Davos on our way to Italy in March.
From Ski-running by Furse, Katharine Symonds
They had tunnelled and walled, and wherever sunbeams fell had cast back the snow that hung above the galleries.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter
To enable this to be carried out the Engineers had tunnelled a way through the cliff rising from West Krithia nullah to a point which they calculated was directly opposite the western end of G11A.
From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by Morrison, F. L.
