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When Brute fell, it was like a refuse chute blown down by a lightning bolt.

"Take a last look-- I'm dumping it down the refuse chute.

In the restaurant is an excavated medieval refuse chute once accessed through an exterior door.

He propped the apartment door open and carried the pillowcases and the carrier to the refuse chute.

The women got up, put dressing gowns on, threw the man's clothes down the refuse chute and put him in a bag.

Where was the refuse chute?

The work goes smoothly until Joe accidentally falls to his death down the refuse chute while helping Duke dump a load of bricks.

These include north-south orientation of the buildings, solar panels to generate lighting for common areas, centralised recyclable refuse chutes and a rainwater collection system.

The swirling specks of a hundred or so vultures wheeled beneath it, in constant pursuit of the garbage that fell like rain from its refuse chutes.

In the centre of the plan of the eastern half of the building, the original grain-storage silo structure of the warehouse was retained for use as a lift, staircase and refuse chute (Fig 58).

The spools of advertising went into the refuse chute; he read only one item, a letter from Pan-Terra Docking Corp. telling him that his convertible cruiser I Spy had finished her overhaul and had been moved to a parking dock, rental to start forthwith.

Why didn't they have some sort of rubbish chute?

And that is why we're glad they fell Into the rubbish chute as well.'

Two of these windows were later blocked up and one was changed to a cupboard with a rubbish chute.

They just throw it down the rubbish chute.

Marcia panics and tries to get everyone, including Boy 412, out of the tower through the rubbish chute.

It had seventy units, a stairwell, two lifts, and a rubbish chute.

"Just an up-to-date version of the old rubbish chute.

During the worst of the winter weather one was discovered dead at the bottom of a rubbish chute in a high rise building.

The greatest danger was the lazy vultures who spent their lives in search of easy meals from the city rubbish chutes.

I suppose I should think myself lucky they didn't just shove me down the rubbish chute.

At the time they were considered revolutionary: each flat had a motorized rubbish chute leading to a central incinerator.

"Let's get you inside before the cleaning robot shoves you into the rubbish chute," Vinnie said.

Erm unknown people have got their little things about setting chutes on fire, the rubbish chutes.

Usage of plastic bags to store domestic waste and the discontinuation of rubbish chutes usage may also be a factor.

Large windows let light and air into the flats, the stairwell, there was even a rubbish chute, an adjoining greenspace, and a playground.

What they normally do is they get some paper, they light it, they'll drop it, and it falls straight into the rubbish chute underneath.

It was an ingenious system, by which the pipes could be laid straight or in curves, not unlike the rubbish chutes used in the building trade today.

'Down the rubbish chute.'

After freeing his friends, they manage to set Buzz back to normal and they escape by sliding down a rubbish chute and land on some dumpsters.

These cities housed about 40,000 people who enjoyed quite a high standard of living with sophisticated water systems; most houses having drainage systems, wells, and rubbish chutes.

Some purpose-built blocks of flats fortunately have rubbish chutes on each landing, which means that you can dispose of the rubbish daily down to a large bin.

The 15-year-old's body was discovered in five bags close to a rubbish chute on the Milford Towers estate in Catford, south-east London.

Realizing the Child Catcher is defeated, the Baroness suggests escaping down a rubbish chute; the Baron initially resists the idea, but the couple go down anyway.

As the Trotters get back to Nelson Mandela House, Del finds out the real reason why nobody came: Grandad threw all the leaflets in the rubbish chute.

It's just that lifts only break down because people use them, rubbish chutes only get blocked with rubbish and debris only accumulates because public spaces aren't cleaned often enough.

Part of the problem could be solved, I believe, if the building's garbage chute was working.

They then make their way up the elevator to the garbage chute.

The board also found serious construction flaws in the garbage chute, where the fire began.

There was a smell of decay from the garbage chute.

Going to the garbage chute is the high point of a Sunday afternoon at home."

There were side rooms off that corridor, including the kitchen, which held a garbage chute.

The sound came from the garbage chute, in the wall against which their council table had been pushed. "

"Or else the guards know about the garbage chute."

The location of the garbage chute is close to the stations hub so they should make it in time.

I was throwing my commission out the garbage chute and maybe even my life.

The indictment charges that she put the body in a bag and dropped it down the building's garbage chute.

"It would make sense to have the garbage chute near the kennels.

The passenger elevator was not working, nor was the garbage chute.

Was his grandmother really inhaled into a garbage chute?

The baby, a boy, apparently had been dropped down the garbage chute of the six-story building, the police said.

The garbage chute had unhinged at the top, creating a small metal canopy.

The building has seventeen stories, fourteen above the ground, and contained one of the first garbage chutes in Poland.

The lift, garbage chute, and utility area formed a central core through which ran a long corridor.

Carried his old clothes down the corridor to the compactor room and dropped them in the garbage chute.

He slides down a garbage chute to escape the police and bangs his head, getting amnesia.

He never once suggested the garbage chute.

Neighbors gathered and wondered who could have dropped an infant down a garbage chute, and why.

"Hi there," he said, letting me into the kitchen where he was trying to fix the broken garbage chute.

All bad walnuts are thrown into a garbage chute which leads to an incinerator that is lit every other day.

Citywide, firefighters responded to about 2,000 fires in garbage chutes or compactors last year.