Sentence examples for held downstairs from inspiring English sources

The women were kept in the upstairs cellblock; male detainees regarded as "difficult" were held downstairs.

What with all the scaffolding and construction equipment, the services celebrating the Jewish New Year will be held downstairs, as they have been for some years.

The reading, held downstairs by candle-light, was for a charity with Huguenot, Jewish and Bangladeshi trustees (the latest Spitalfields immigrants spoke Bengali), determined to save this house haunted by multiple asylum-seekers.

Daily morning and evening services were held downstairs; Friday nights, Saturday mornings and holidays were observed in the main sanctuary, with overflow services on Yom Kippur on the lower level.

Dr. Shockley conceived of a totally different approach, beginning in early 1948 with solitary work in a Chicago hotel room as a meeting of the American Physical Society was held downstairs.

Talk story about the do-it-yourself show of power tools for wood-and-metalwork, at the Union Dime Saving Bank, at Madison & 39th St. Demonstrations, which are held downstairs, began last Monday and will go on, every banking day betw.

She was holding court downstairs at a table in the corner, and now it was time to migrate to the private party room on the top floor, where Gene Pressman, recently stripped of his title of co-chief executive of Barneys, spotted Lucy and trotted over to pay his respects.

Nearby, the handsome City Hall was built in 1856 with a dual purpose; while the top floor held municipal offices, downstairs a tumultuous market hall bulged with produce stalls, butcher shops and tanks of fish.

So, if the repair in question is the writer's responsibility under the proprietary lease, then he could be held liable to the downstairs neighbors for damage to the ceiling.

Weiner has a plan of his own: the staffers and volunteers should go downstairs, holding Weiner signs, surround Leathers, and "chant the shit out of her".

A thin man of thirty-four, Areceivedived me graciously in his home, which doubled as his school, and showed me the downstairs room where he held classes.