lift shaft BrE
elevator shaft AmE

He reached up over the door of the elevator shaft.

At the end of the elevator shaft he had no options as to what to do next.

Then he turned and ran back toward the main elevator shaft.

Someone had opened the door at the bottom of the elevator shaft.

The board was behind the elevator shaft where I had left it.

Those who were up there compared it to looking down an elevator shaft.

It had taken him a minute to figure out that he was looking at an elevator shaft.

Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down.

"Remember the men at the bottom of the elevator shaft?"

Her body was found the next morning at the bottom of an elevator shaft.