Sentence examples for stairwells from inspiring English sources

Inside the building's shady stairwells, the character for "expropriation" has been written and circled in red over stained walls.

The residency will mean a new fantasy for the building: images appearing in frames in the ladies' toilets; surreal images on the stairwells and in the large basement gaming space; the big circular ceiling will become a changing window.

And there are scenes from later that evening, when the music started, a ghetto blaster playing traditional son, and on the balcony and all along the stairwells, bodies dancing in the heat: gleaming limbs, dampened shirts, arms raised in delight.

We are lost in a private member's club in central London, striding up and down stairwells, through doors and down dead ends.

During riots in Risley prison, which opened in 1964, people were trapped on landings where stairwells stopped halfway down.

Inside the building, motion sensors control fans and switch off lights in seldom-occupied areas such as stairwells.

In the central district near the charred wreckage of Middle School Number One, where terrorists held over 1,100 people hostage in the gym for 52 hours before blowing it up, there are blocks of flats that have lost two dozen residents, and coffin lids and wreaths fill the entrances to the stairwells.

Debt-collectors in Glasgow have been known to dangle children over stairwells and beat up their parents in front of them, says Ms Kempson.

Before the heavy snows came she slept on top of some hot-water pipes at the back of an apartment block.In winter, Moscow's homeless sleep in the stairwells of residential buildings, ringing on all the buzzers until someone inadvertently lets them in, then pretending to be asleep when residents pass by.

At Golders Green station which still looks much the same as when Yerkes's team built it in 1907 a small brown plaque near the electronic ticket gates notes the date the building opened, and that some original features remain, such as ornate timber handrails in the stairwells.

Many reuse syringes left in stairwells: "This is a medical question, not an ideological one".Valérie Pécresse, a French opposition politician, has denounced the scheme as "assisted poisoning".