Sentence examples for sometimes took off from inspiring English sources

It was a bold venture that sometimes took off and sometimes didn't.

As a recreational pilot, Blum saw that corporate planes sometimes took off &landed with empty seats, & in 1981 she wondered, 'If the planes are going in the right direction anyhow, why can't we fill those empty seats with patients flying for treatment?' CAN now coordinates 50-60 flights a month &has 400 companies helping.

This opening ceremony sometimes took off too, not least when David Beckham arrived by speedboat to hand the flame to Sir Steve Redgrave, who with other great British Olympians came good on London 2012's promise to hand on to the next generation.

Rhodes then regularly used his protective mask as a weapon during matches by headbutting opponents and sometimes took off the mask to use it to hit his opponents.

The essays are loosely united around the theme of nostalgia — the "unnerving premonition that the world" is "about to suddenly vanish" — but they delve into history, politics, entertainment, and sometimes take off into personal flights of fancy.

He held a Barbaro poster and appeared to be reading from a script on the back of it, the way a cop will sometimes take off his hat to read the Miranda warning he has stuck under the brim.

The rest, led by a roster of colourful "men of destiny" including Lord Rothermere, Horatio Bottomley, Oswald Mosley, Desmond Donnelly, James Goldsmith, Robert Kilroy-Silk, and now George Galloway, have sometimes taken off like rockets but have all fallen back to earth like stones.

The 19th-century trend to put back everything, with restorers sometimes taking off on their own flights of fancy, was reversed by the mid-20th century, when the purist approach, dictating the removal of all previous restoration in the name of honesty, sometimes led to the erasure of some of the artists' work.

The instruments weave in and out of the voices, sometimes evoking the noise of the insect bumping against the piano and its strings, sometimes taking off on flights of their own; the sound world is fragile and exquisite, the music spare and elegiac.

Iowa crewmen later stated that Turret Two's center gun rammer would sometimes "take off" uncontrollably on its own at high speed.

A caricatured version is sometimes taken off the shelf and dusted off, as we saw with the hyperbolic exploitation of the purported "relationship" between Obama and former Weather Underground founder William Ayers.