Sentence examples for was downstairs from from inspiring English sources

Mr. Stewart said that, when he was a young man, he worked in a bar called "The Bottom Half," which was so called because it was downstairs from a liquor store, and drove a 1969 Gremlin, a car so ugly that it assured no self-respecting young woman would go out with him.

Up to that point, my nights had consisted primarily of hanging out with friends at a local pub that we affectionately dubbed the Southern office (because it was downstairs from our real office) until the wee hours of the night.

"My phone is downstairs from my bedroom," Dixon said.

The house is carved into a slope in such a way that its second bedroom is downstairs from the main level.

In the art space, which is downstairs from the courtyard, I wandered through galleries of paintings, performances, and installations by fifty-five young artists.

Jeffrey Richards's office, a space crowded with show posters, old marquee signs and two dogs walking around wearing souvenir T-shirts, is downstairs from his apartment and 18 blocks from where he grew up.

I met Sukey in her office, which is downstairs from the Novogratzes' palatial apartment, in Tribeca, and decorated with pachyderms in every form and material possible — "The elephant is my power animal," she said.

Lorenzo Alati, 36, director for Benetton in France, bought the bistro, which is downstairs from his apartment, and asked an architect, Antonio Virga, to streamline the original features with off-white walls, hip graphics, dark wood furniture and a collection of contemporary black and white photographs.

It's downstairs from the company office, and was created as a place for American Giant to show off its wares to vendors, designers and other partners.

The sixteen lanes were downstairs from a non-descript doorway on Union Turnpike and the street outside the two establishments became a hang-out for older kids.

It's not what one would call a glamorous address — it's downstairs from a Gristede's and around the corner from a taco joint — and sometimes when it rains, brown water drips from the same spot in the ceiling, right above the front-left corner of the stage.