verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cargo
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Then they would unload their human cargo and speed back, using a different route, to repeat the process.
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Patients could watch trains load and unload cargo from the ships docked at the waterfront.
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There they found two boats tied up alongside the wharf, waiting to unload their cargo of dolphin corpses.
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The stretcher bearers ran out to unload the cargo .
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On the other hand, he could find he had been selected to unload a valuable cargo such as palm kernels.
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It became the head of navigation where they unloaded their cargoes .
■ VERB
begin
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As the crew began to unload the waste drums, inflatable dinghies were deliberately positioned underneath.
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As she watched, two men began unloading something long and heavy, but she could not see what it was.
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Within twenty minutes a car drove up to the family majlis and began to unload a meal for us all.
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A truck arrived at our door one morning and two burly men began unloading cartons from the back.
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No one spoke; they began to unload the cases from the lorry.
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Primo walked back up the street and began unloading the van.
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A middle-aged couple got out and began to unload a motley collection of boxes and bags.
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I began to unload the camels.
help
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How stop myself swinging down through the branches to help unload her little car?
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She rinsed the sheets secretly, after Sethe went to the restaurant and Paul D went scrounging for barges to help unload .
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Several Negro women waited with her, and Wilson was there to help unload him.
load
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Such a barn is easy to load and unload and may be adapted for other uses when empty.
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That is, if the loading and unloading actually occurred.
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You see them being loaded and unloaded , sailing piled up to the funnel with cotton bales or wrecked by tornadoes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Could you unload the dishwasher?
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Paul's job was mainly unloading cartons and stacking them.
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The ship is unloading at the dock right now.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Everything was grey, wet and colourless as we stood by the rail watching the luggage being unloaded into the custom sheds.
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He stood quietly and watched the boxes being unloaded.
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I am anxious to unload , Mr Tyron.
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In recent months, Fidelity, not just Magellan, has unloaded tech stocks.
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Mike climbed the steps without speaking, and unloaded his cameras and camera bag on a mat.
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Much oil and petrol is unloaded at docks along the canal, particularly for a petrochemical works at Carrington.
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There was a certain way of unloading timber which made the work quite straight forward.
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Wall Street had speculated earlier this week that Kodak would unload the unprofitable unit.