Example sentences of "went up to the [adj] floor " in BNC.

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1 Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green .
2 We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat .
3 Blake then went up to the second floor of the block and along to the main window .
4 Alice went up to the second floor in the lift , let herself into the flat and read , for the ninth or tenth time , the letter she had left for Mike .
5 We went up to the top floor and were told to sleep in a room full of grey metal bunks and steel lockers , and to sleep fully clothed to avoid the lice .
6 Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts .
7 We all went up to the top floor , and entered the room where Mason had been attacked .
8 He went up to the next floor , where uniformed footmen and maids were dispensing coffee and cakes , biscuits and ices .
9 He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely .
10 Odd , that , Mike thought as he went up to the third floor in the rattling old lift .
11 She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study .
12 They walked to the lift and went up to the fourth floor .
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