Tunnelled

If empty promises and spin were worth anything in this economy, the National Party could have tunnelled all the way to the Bondi outfall.

The Big Dig in Boston, for example, cost around $8 billion for a roughly 2.5-kilometre tunnel, while Washington State spent $2.15 billion on 3.2 kilometres of tunnelled highway in Seattle.

There had been plans to provide a grant to the SEC for the refurbishment of the tunnelled part of the ‘Smartie Tube’ and to redesign junction 19 of the M8.

Fifty of the Allied airmen who tunnelled out of Stalag Luft 3 in the Great Escape were executed in chilling scenes like this.

The Metro Tunnel's second tunnel boring machine, "Meg", has tunnelled hundreds of metres under West Melbourne.

It consists of either lamb, chicken or bean curry poured into a tunnelled-out loaf of bread to be eaten with one's fingers.

The machines on the Zealand side tunnelled through difficult ground and made little progress.

They had learned the tactics of street fighting and simply tunnelled through the walls of houses to outflank the Communards' barricades.

This procedure may be performed by leaving the donor tissue connected to the original site to retain its blood supply (the vessels are tunnelled beneath the skin surface to the new site) or it may be cut off and new blood supply may be connected.

Unable to remove these stones, however, the workmen tunnelled up beside them through the softer limestone of the Pyramid until they reached the Ascending Passage.