Sentence examples for off from the roof from inspiring English sources
The project's "money shot" was the front portico, which feature dramatic angled beams that leap off from the roof.
In the 1975 fall of Saigon, the lasting image is of someone dangling from the skids of a helicopter lifting off from the roof of the American Embassy.
THIS coming weekend marks the 25th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam -- the time in 1975 that helicopters lifted off from the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon, ending the United States military presence.
In the famous photo showing the helicopter taking off from the roof of what is usually misidentified as the United States Embassy (it was actually a C.I.A. safe house two blocks away), the last person climbing the rickety ladder to get on board is Tran Kim Tuyen.
An afternoon aerial tour over Los Angeles in a Fire Department helicopter — lifting off from the roof of a downtown city skyscraper, over the Sepuldeva Pass and into the San Fernando Valley, and looping back by the Los Angeles Airport — left city officials gape-jawed at empty highways and streets in places where summer Saturdays normally mean hot and vexing crawls.
Of course, I was born in America, while Nguyen arrived in this country, along with most of her family, after fleeing Vietnam on April 29 , 1975 the day the last helicopters lifted off from the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon as the city fell to the Communists.
A partial green roof on the third floor outdoor study deck helps cool the floor below while reducing storm water run-off from the roof.
Guttering prevents rainfall from damaging the walls of your property by collecting the run-off from the roof, guiding it along the gutter, through a downpipe towards a drain in the ground.
But when she was a teen, she told me, she'd lived in a school bus in Kentucky, drinking rainwater run-off from the roof.
Isla Urbana's system uses water run-off from the roofs, pre-treats it and then stores the collected liquid in an existing cistern, or the organisation builds an alternative storage cistern.
