Examples of downstairs

• I'll see you downstairs in the foyer in half an hour.

• I jumped out of bed and ran downstairs.

• I pulled on my jeans and ran downstairs.

• Did you put the lights out downstairs?

• She came downstairs after her shower, wrapped in a towel.

• A gloomy light burned in a downstairs window .

• One of the two kitchens is downstairs.

• In the downstairs loo, she has a picture of herself as a bridesmaid.

• Our downstairs neighbours are heavy smokers, and the smell seeps up through the floorboards into our flat.

• The second door, she explained, leads to the downstairs television room.

• The downstairs rooms of her two-story concrete house are filled with toddlers and preschool children.

• The downstairs was so smoky that we could not see.

• The couple spent GBP70,000 making the downstairs open-plan and adding two extra bedrooms.

• The downstairs of the theater was just about full and there were plenty of people upstairs, too.

• When renovating, school officials decided to paint the downstairs a warm orange, so students would think warm thoughts on cold days.

• I worked my way around the downstairs, cleaning all the windows.

• The new design opened up the downstairs and achieved both airiness and intimacy.

• The kitchen is divided from the rest of the downstairs by a row of cupboards.

• If the patient lives in a house with a downstairs toilet, a downstairs room may need to be turned into a bed-sitting room for him.

• Downstairs are the stable, the storage rooms and sometimes a fireplace.

• You'll have to go on downstairs out of the way.

• I can't talk to my friend because he won't let me go downstairs to see her.

• The great man's arrival was announced via the receptionist downstairs.

• Interestingly, although the phrases up there and down there seem as easy and familiar, upstairs and downstairs were six times more frequent.

• Upstairs and downstairs are common labels for a subordinate spatial category, levels contained within the house, and also specify a route to those levels.

• At the least, upstairs and downstairs indicates the early entrainment of a directional spatial term with a route.

• When she hears footsteps downstairs, she asks nicely for the "blessed visitor," whoever it is, to bring up a container of food for her.

• Moreover, the customers downstairs seemed to be more reactive to other customers.

• Has a bathroom downstairs, but his bedroom and toilet are upstairs.

• However, the telephone number would put her, unwittingly through to the administration manager downstairs.

• Since the bathroom serves two bedrooms upstairs, and one study bedroom downstairs, this is logically located at the half-level.

• In response, he takes it back downstairs with him on his way out.

• Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows-she had evidently shut up the top f loor of the house.