lift shaft BrE
elevator shaft AmE

Then he turned right down the hall to the lift shaft.

The dead man began to lower himself down the lift shaft.

Of them all, only she had not been given the chance to take the knife from the lift shaft.

It continued on toward what appeared to be a lift shaft?

"It's going to take some doing to get her out of the lift shaft.

I was expecting the whole lift shaft to come down on our heads.

Instead he plummeted to the bottom of the lift shaft.

He stepped into the lift shaft and fell out of sight.

To one side of him was a gap in the lift shaft where the doorway used to be.

He turned and waved a hand at the knife in the lift shaft.

This exit leads to the back of the used lift shaft.

Not until they were back at the lift shaft.

The entire lift shaft was suddenly filled with electrical fire.

Peril's head poked around the side of the lift shaft.

The two companies had separate surface buildings and lift shafts.

She was almost to the lift shaft when a group emerged from the Commons.

They came out from behind the lift shaft, a young man and young woman.

I could hear the characteristic groan in the lift shaft.

"Make it fast in the lift shaft, will you," he said.

Anyway, somebody can stay up here until we're all safely down the lift shaft, then follow us.

It was a hard climb back down along the lift shaft, out through the hold, and up to the last of the sunlight.

A gang of kids from another school were gathered round the lift shaft.

They dropped into the lift shaft and were gone.

In May 2011 the last remnants of the building, the lift shaft, were demolished.

The lift shafts are used for offices and station facilities.

Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down.

He reached up over the door of the elevator shaft.

The board was behind the elevator shaft where I had left it.

Then he turned and ran back toward the main elevator shaft.

Her body was found the next morning at the bottom of an elevator shaft.

"Remember the men at the bottom of the elevator shaft?"

At the end of the elevator shaft he had no options as to what to do next.

The Shadow led the way back to the elevator shaft.

Those who were up there compared it to looking down an elevator shaft.

May said, "John, tell us how you got out of the elevator shaft."

It had taken him a minute to figure out that he was looking at an elevator shaft.

He was stuck in that elevator shaft when it got lost.

When I got to the office the next morning, the wizard was still working on the elevator shaft.

I believe that they are climbing back up the elevator shaft.

There was a lot of drilling going on from the elevator shaft.

"We will cut out more of the elevator shaft, if the special panels do not work."

The fire spread through the elevator shafts and quickly got out of control.

Strong hands were at work on the closed doors of the elevator shaft.

"Can you cut across the bottom of the aircraft elevator shaft?"

An obvious step when a boy fell down an elevator shaft.

It was the steel door of a modern elevator shaft.

No, I take it back; more likely, the wizard was working on the elevator shaft again.

I leaned on the corner of the elevator shaft and looked at my door.

That elevator shaft, if he could get into it, certainly ought to offer a way up.

The two were alone in the long corridor that led back to the old elevator shaft.