Sentence examples for pluck him off from inspiring English sources

Four rescuers reached the Italian, Marco Confortola, but he was still too high above the base camp for helicopters to safely pluck him off the mountain, Reuters reported.

After many years of dreaming, planning and false starts, on August 7 , 1974 Petit, together with his team of co-conspirators, managed to rig a wire between the Twin Towers of the World Trace Center and spent 45 minutes dancing on it, before the police threatened to pluck him off it with a helicopter and he chose to come off on his own.

He played nine games as a September call-up in 2008, just before the Brewers plucked him off waivers.

Kansas City lost him to Oakland in December 2010, and the White Sox plucked him off the wire the next month.

A hook and ladder plucked him off the facade, and he eventually recovered.

But if Ross was really that great, why did the Marlins simply give him away when the Giants plucked him off waivers in August?

He has been running more like a Jim Brown clone than a reject since the Dolphins plucked him off the scrap heap of released players before last season.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A frost-bitten Italian mountain climber dragged himself down K2 to base camp on Tuesday aided by three fellow mountaineers as rescue helicopters were stopped from plucking him off the mountain because of bad weather, a Pakistani official said.

A studio representative plucked him off the stage when he was performing in a benefit for the Motion Picture Relief Fund, prompting O'Connor to recall for the rest of his life, "Some talent scout pointed to me and said, 'Get that kid.' ".

One of the 14 known survivors of the, 29-year-old Habibullah Hashimi from Afghanistan, told reporters that he had seen at least five of his fellow passengers drown before fishermen plucked him from the water off West Java.

Still, the possibility of an angry confrontation over the boy has haunted negotiations between the government and Elian's Florida relatives ever since fishermen plucked him from the Atlantic Ocean off Florida on Thanksgiving after his mother drowned in their voyage from Cuba.