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 Arthur Scott Bailey
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 Walter De la Mare
In this hollow “oven,” on a heap of hay, moss, and leaves, brought hither by the parent otters through an opening they had tunnelled into the meadow, Lutra was born.
From Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Alfred Wellesley Rees
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 F. L. Morrison
The train had tunnelled all the earth, blindly, and uglily.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
