dig for

I have to dig for hope, like a truffle-seeking pig, like a dog trying to find a bone he can’t remember where he buried.

I will dig for it until I am dead.

The school and its pupils have undertaking licenced projects with Mr McNee for seven years, including several for BBC programmes such as Digging for Britain and being part of the first licensed dig for a WW2 aircraft in NI.

The family of a woman who was kidnapped and murdered at a farm want to purchase the property and dig for her body.

Originally a mining town in the mid-1800s, this Colorado Rockies outpost has since turned into a ski resort, a hiking destination and, as it happens, a different kind of mining town come Labor Day weekend, as journalists, producers and publicists dig for another kind of gold — the Oscar kind.