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Examples
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On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Then she was shot dead in the lift-shaft of her apartment block.
Johann Hari: We Can't Allow Russia's Dissidents to be Killed on Western Streets 2009
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On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Think of the well of the very largest spiral staircase or lift-shaft that you have ever looked down, and magnify that by a hundred.
First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006
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I just glimpsed a series of metal rungs sunk into the lift-shaft, glinting in the sallow electric light and extending towards the surface.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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Suddenly the lift-shaft shook again and there came a bizarre sucking, grumbling sound.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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I just glimpsed a series of metal rungs sunk into the lift-shaft, glinting in the sallow electric light and extending towards the surface.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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Suddenly the lift-shaft shook again and there came a bizarre sucking, grumbling sound.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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The Terrans saluted when I went to the central lift-shaft.
Duel Under the Double Sun Scheer, Karl 1977
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