Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] the first floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firemen were called to an unoccupied house in Patterson Avenue , Middlesbrough , yesterday when a mattress on the first floor caught fire . |
| 2 | For some reason , Noreen had a suite on the first floor . |
| 3 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 4 | They have a department on the first floor ( best reached by door ten ) housing what they call the Plus Collection . |
| 5 | While the fire was small it filled the groundfloor of the building with smoke , which had started to take a hold of the first floor when Cleveland Fire Brigade arrived . |
| 6 | There was no sign of activity except the slight movement of a curtain on the first floor . |
| 7 | A few minutes later he went to a room on the first floor to take a blood test . |
| 8 | A bandage round his head , a cup of tea in his blunt hands , he looked like the only survivor of some great catastrophe , and Nathan could understand exactly why he 'd been able to move India-May to tears and why he 'd been given a room on the first floor , one of the large ones , for nothing . |
| 9 | Wayne showed him to a room on the first floor , at the front of the building . |
| 10 | The preparations for The Human Angle , Dyson discovered , were going forward in a room on the first floor furnished with a sea-blue fitted carpet , a number of discreetly abstract paintings , and a walnut sideboard . |
| 11 | It belonged to a room on the first floor , where possibly Elizabeth had her own sitting-room . |
| 12 | Ten Scottish National Party members invaded a room on the first floor of the building which they occupied for three hours before being evicted by security guards . |
| 13 | They occupied a room on the first floor for three hours before being evicted . |
| 14 | Inside , a beam on the first floor is marked with the name ‘ Hayward ’ , a family that also ran the now-demolished mill at nearby Baunton . |
| 15 | I found a pensione on the first floor of a small square , run by a woman so enormous that she could hardly move . |
| 16 | Louis has sent me to deliver a message to his friend whose family occupy a flat on the first floor , below us . |
| 17 | This is a live-in post with a flat on the first floor . |
| 18 | That was er a flat in Plumtree , we were offered a flat on the first floor and when we examined the kitchen it was extremely obvious to me that our gas cooker would n't fit in the , the place where it was designed to fit , when I asked where do we put the washing machine I was informed that most tenants kept the washing machine on the balcony , when I said well where do we put the refrigerator , well most people keep the refrigerator either in the hall or , or rather not a hall it was a passageway , in the passageway or in the living room , now it does seem to me with hindsight that if that 's planning I , to use an old fashion London phrase , I 'm a Dutchman . |
| 19 | The Fletchers had a flat on the first floor of one of the fine period houses dating back to the bad old days of the monarchy and the Iron Guard . |
| 20 | The applications , which are likely to be approved , involve changing the use from a restaurant to a pub , including a flat on the first floor , and changing the use of a former restaurant to offices . |
| 21 | It has fine balusters and a door to the first floor room behind . |
| 22 | A flight of stone steps gives access and a door from the first floor of the inn has been added . |
| 23 | When the alarm was given , the animals would be driven into the ground floor of the Pele Tower , the local families would ascend a ladder to the first floor , the women and children climbing again to the bower above and the men to the roof , where they would repulse the invaders . |
| 24 | There was an enormous fireplace to one side and a staircase to the first floor wide enough to take a regiment . |
| 25 | I remember one day in the 1940s sitting at a table on the first floor of the Crown in Fleet Street , next to a table where an attractive young woman , then unknown to me , was sitting in front of a plate of smoked salmon and opposite an empty place furnished with another plate of smoked salmon , which must have been ordered in advance . |
| 26 | ‘ And you did n't even notice that a tenant from the first floor is missing ? ’ |