noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bearer
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The stretcher bearers ran out to unload the cargo.
■ VERB
carry
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I felt a right idiot, being carried out on a stretcher , everybody gawping at me.
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They get carried out on stretchers screaming.
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It had been hoped to make six trips a day with each helicopter carrying six stretchers and four other wounded civilians.
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I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance.
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Most of the prisoners had to be carried out on stretchers .
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Two ambulance-men crossed the pavement, carrying a stretcher .
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The faith, shown by the friends of the paralysed man who carried the stretcher , is an active faith.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A woman who had just given birth was being lifted off a stretcher .
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Buffalo hunters usually worked in parties of four, with one shooter, two skinners, and one hide stretcher and cook.
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I felt a right idiot, being carried out on a stretcher , everybody gawping at me.
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Right in the middle is a stretcher .
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The mortuary van had moved closer to the rim of the hollow and the stretcher was being manoeuvred into place.