| West pressed the black button, which reeled in the wire without demagnetising the hook, and he was lifted off his feet and up the air-vent. |
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| The hardware for the Deep Impact mission will be lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 13.47 local time today. |
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| My cheap ballpoint scratched across the page, and as soon as it was lifted off, my name was called to the audition room. |
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| After a quick turnaround at Waterford, the London Luton bound Aer Arann ATR72 lifted off the runway on time at 3pm. |
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| Panels of the fibre-glass shell could be unscrewed and lifted off allowing access to the inside wall of the plane's cargo hold. |
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| The four shuttles quickly lifted off and buzzed back toward Base-One, leaving the marines to move out. |
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| Mrs. Joyce's handed-down straw hat lifted off my head as we left the parking lot. |
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| My theory is that his wheelchair was lifted off the transporter pad by a couple of hefty young officers. |
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| The helicopter lifted off the ground, gained the proper height, and moved out towards Pakistan. |
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| It's as though a grimy pall has been lifted off the city and a Bohemian spirit has returned once more to Bohemia. |
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| Around sunrise, the concentration of geese we'd hoped would keep our barrels warm lifted off its roost and, in steady waves, flew away. |
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| I could see now the Cyclops taking off, it's engines and jets fired into life and slowly lifted off the ground. |
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| Blair set his aside and just looked out the window as the copter lifted off. |
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| On April 12, 1961, the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 lifted off into space to achieve the first Earth orbit. |
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| The referee should also whistle immediately if any player in the scrummage is lifted off his feet or is forced upwards out of the scrummage. |
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| Eventually the building itself was lifted off its foundation as the crawl space was turned into a ground floor. |
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| Despite the heavy clothing that was weighing me down, I felt light, as though a stone had been lifted off my heart. |
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| And Jane felt as though a million bricks had been lifted off her shoulders. |
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| Marine Cobra helicopters lifted off as tracer fire criss-crossed the north end of the airport, it said. |
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| He shouted over the rotor noises of the helicopter as it lifted off from the site. |
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| The coordinator could not contain the gloat as the aircraft lifted off to record another on-time take off. |
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| The report says that as the aging helicopter lifted off the deck of HMCS Iroquois, the pilot gave the aircraft too much power. |
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| Above the thunderous whir of the aircraft rotors, Nelson and his buddies yelled back and forth, shooting the bull as the copter lifted off. |
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| He was lifted off the beach in a medical landing craft and flown back to England. |
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| They boarded quickly and both ships lifted off as the boarding ramps retracted. |
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| My oldest sister, Bridget, water-skied in a two-piece bathing suit, her long brown hair lifted off a noble neck. |
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| Slowly her feet lifted off the ground and she ascended into the air. |
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| Flames licked out of the exhaust as the plane lifted off the runway and began the ascent, and as the noise faded into the distance it seemed to get even more intense. |
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| I pushed the throttle forward and Moonlight lifted off the ground slowly. |
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| To do toe taps, all the toes are lifted off the floor and, keeping the heel on the floor and the outside four toes in the air, the big toe is tapped to the floor repetitively. |
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| The airship slowly lifted off the ground just before they arrived. |
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| The basic plot of The Virgin Spring, which was lifted off a Medieval tale, became the framework for The Last House on the Left. |
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| On March 12, 1908, over Keuka Lake, the biplane lifted off on the first public flight in North America. |
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| While celebrated as an innovative use of a new metal, aluminum, the model never lifted off the ground. |
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| Then the earth in the boats was gradually taken away so that the boats floated much higher and the oxen were lifted off the river bottom. |
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| When the cone is carefully lifted off, the enclosed material slumps a certain amount, owing to gravity. |
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| The most recent occurrence involved the Celtic Endeavour being aground near Gunness for ten days, finally being lifted off by a high tide. |
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| He piled 125 people into the back of his plane and lifted off. |
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| These past few years, this gem has been lifted off the ground, dusted off, and held high on a pedestal for all to see. |
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| Except for a few experimental or military designs, all aircraft built to date have had all of their weight lifted off the ground by airflow across the wings. |
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