Example sentences of "down [art] [noun sg] shaft " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1 ) Stand with your feet about shoulder-width apart and grip the club above your head with your thumbs extended down the club shaft and your palms facing upwards . |
| 2 | And instead , instead of telling the woman I I pretended to eat it could n't finish it I put it down the lift shaft . |
| 3 | But anyway this went on for weeks and weeks , and I kept on it down the lift shaft . |
| 4 | Main Picture Centre : Materials are lowered down a ventilation shaft for Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Junction Canal . |
| 5 | Russell Telford , 29 , stayed halfway down a pit shaft for nine hours after threatening a lift operator at Markham Main colliery , South Yorkshire . |
| 6 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 7 | A burglar who fell through the roof of a shop and down a ventilator shaft has been jailed for three years . |