1.   A china light-switch, finger-flicked, showed her a narrow wooden staircase.

2.   He began to ascend the narrow winding staircase.

3.   Thick smoke billowed up a narrow staircase and smothered the sleeping youngsters in their second-floor bedroom.

4.   He picked his way down the narrow staircase.

5.   So Summerchild locks up his office and goes down the narrow staircase.

6.   Still, as she made her way up the narrow staircase to the agency office at five minutes to ten, it was hard to contain her excitement.

7.   Alnisa Slade noticed the fire exit was bolted and that the stampede down the narrow staircase to the outside was crushing and suffocating people.

8.   Heading up a narrow staircase, you get to a large L-shaped room populated by men and women in gray lab coats.

9.   In overcrowded rooms that were accessible only by a narrow staircase or industrial elevator, you could smell the paranoia among the fashionistas like a whiff of civet.

10.   Others are up or down narrow staircases, off corridors that twist and turn like an English maze garden.