Just after 5:00 pm on that evening the attack came to a halt and the men dug in for the night.
Once the men had dug in, there was nothing to do but wait.
He and his men had dug around for a while.
To start from the beginning again: why would a man dig a big hole?
He stopped, and both men dug low against the ground in case of any Russian fire.
Pay a little more to have a man dig that ditch.
A hundred men couldn't have dug through that mountain of rubble in a month.
From the bottom of this, the men dug in both directions, giving 4 working faces.
The big man can't dig the ball back over the net.
"Send some men to dig a grave outside the village."