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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

  • 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

  • On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • Suddenly the lift-shaft shook again and there came a bizarre sucking, grumbling sound.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • 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

  • Suddenly the lift-shaft shook again and there came a bizarre sucking, grumbling sound.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • The Terrans saluted when I went to the central lift-shaft.

    Duel Under the Double Sun Scheer, Karl 1977

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