Collocations for shaft - noun

deep
vertical
narrow
elevator (AmE), lift (BrE)
She almost fell down an elevator shaft.

mine (usually mineshaft)
air, ventilation

dig, drill, sink

down a/the shaft
The body had been thrown down a disused shaft.

in a/the shaft, into a/the shaft
through a/the shaft
The workers go down to the tunnels through a vertical shaft sunk from the top of the cliff.

the bottom of a shaft, the top of a shaft
They lowered him down to the bottom of the deep shaft.