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Example sentences for "carry them"

  • Having assured the captain that I fully comprehended my directions, and would endeavour to carry them out to the full, I took my departure, to prepare for the expedition.

  • So quickly had the poor Frenchmen been struck down that the survivors had not had time to carry them below, and there they lay, some stark and stiff, others writhing in their agony.

  • We remained there a month taking in the goods of the Globe, to carry them to Bantam, for which place we sailed on the 9th October, and arrived at Bantam on the 9th November.

  • The 7th of September we were occupied in arranging the presents, and providing little tables of sweet-smelling wood on which to carry them, according to the custom of the country.

  • We offered these people our first prize, with victuals to carry them ashore, which they refused, as fearing to be ill-used by the Malabars, having lately escaped with difficulty from a fleet of theirs of fourteen sail.

  • As soon as they had filled their casks, they handed them over the wall to others of their crew, who waited there to carry them on board.

  • He slept on undisturbed, giving them time to fill all their casks; which they afterwards handed over the wall to others of the crew who waited to carry them aboard.

  • This done, the eunuch her confidant called the other eunuchs who had brought in the trunks, and ordered them to carry them on board again.

  • And they cried with a loud voice toward heaven, saying: What shall we do with these, and whither shall we carry them?

  • Have I conceived all this multitude, or begotten them, that thou shouldst say to me: Carry them in thy bosom as the nurse is wont to carry the little infant, and bear them into the land, for which thou hast sworn to their fathers?

  • And the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and gold, and the vessels, to carry them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

  • Where are they going to carry them to in that dark hold?

  • Eight stout fellows undertook to carry them, and all things being ready, we bade farewell to the chief, who, however, seemed rather angry at our departure.

  • We meantime had been employed in packing up, but instead of making Kate and Bella carry burdens, we prepared a litter to carry them.

  • Then she and her new-made husband bade good-bye, entered a carriage, and started for a train that was to carry them on their homeward way.

  • The ladies began their toilets soon after breakfast and were not seen again until about to enter the carriages which were to carry them to The Oaks; this time Keith had not even the pleasure of being in the same vehicle with Lucilla.

  • Then let me advise you to take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them.

  • Bless me, child, you will have to charter an omnibus to carry them about.

  • This ceremony being over, the old people stepped from my boat into a canoe that was waiting to carry them to their place of abode.

  • But to get them to our boats was a tedious operation, for we were obliged to carry them at least half a mile over the reef up to the middle in water.

  • No, thank you," said Maria, "I prefer to carry them myself.

  • Aunt Eunice and I have been to Westbridge and bought these things for her, and I want to carry them to her to-night.

  • I got some peaches on my way," he explained, "and I didn't want to carry them to church.

  • They would have been thankful for a gale of wind to carry them to a safe distance.

  • Directly afterwards the officer ordered the prisoners to be brought out, as the boat had arrived from the tender to carry them on board.

  • The killed were left above high water mark on the beach, until a party could be sent to carry them to Barton churchyard, where the revenue man and smuggler were destined to lie side by side.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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