Example sentences of "[prep] the first floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got in and pressed the button for the first floor . |
| 2 | Oliver pressed the button for the first floor but Rain held the door open and allowed Wickham to join them . |
| 3 | The chain for ringing the bell runs down the house , through the first floor landing , where it can be pulled if desired , to the hall below . |
| 4 | and reappeared through the first floor window |
| 5 | Fire ripped through the first floor of the Afro-West Indian Centre in Marton Road , Middlesbrough , early yesterday . |
| 6 | She was collecting many valuable print references and sources , far too many to be used at once , and had special archive cupboards built for her which occupied a tall , cavernous room off the first floor landing at the château where she often worked . |
| 7 | Many such heavy timber beams supporting joists of the first floor were inserted into existing buildings in such a way that their ends may have had an inadequate bearing on to slender timber ‘ storey posts ’ installed adjacent to the party walls . |
| 8 | This area of the first floor had housed four millstones as well as the upper section of the power shaft . |
| 9 | He brushes her lips with his , then jerks his head in the direction of the first floor . |
| 10 | In the northwest corner of the first floor was the small office of W.V. Stevens , the tall , balding , pipe-smoking Telegraph Editor , who dealt with world news . |
| 11 | The saloon , or drawing room , extends the full width of the first floor on the east side above the dining room . |
| 12 | The door behind the piano leads onto the landing of the upper hall , completing the tour of the first floor . |
| 13 | At Cromwell Road the students made use of the first floor which had a magnificent music room and a ballroom which they loaned to the Senior Common Room for the purposes of the annual Royal College Charity Ball which rivalled the Chelsea Arts Ball . |
| 14 | Erm cabling is a problem on most of the first floor |
| 15 | Having decided to start her own nursery playgroup , Clare sold her engagement ring , a flashy marquise diamond , in order to buy the lease of the first floor of a big Edwardian house in Pimlico : it contained a ballroom , a small rear room , and a bathroom . |
| 16 | They sat against the wall of the house , just under the stone parapet of the first floor terrace . |
| 17 | This time Howard goes shooting tight past the chandelier , up to the level of the first floor . |
| 18 | There were three other rooms on the north side of the first floor . |
| 19 | of the first floor , running with its adjoining search room almost the whole length of the building . |
| 20 | Everything up there 's a complete write-off , and most of the first floor 's in pretty bad shape . |
| 21 | Its various creepers , wisteria , magnolia grandiflora and Russian vine had been checked at the level of the first floor . |
| 22 | Just the splendid staircase leading up to the three doorways at the entrance and above that the tall windows of the first floor gallery , all open to the sky , gazing on emptiness . |
| 23 | The tenant of a first-floor flat , having subdivided the apartment with the lessor 's consent , erected an external staircase which provided access to one part of the first floor . |
| 24 | He said that residents of the first floor flats , which had not been flooded had been told that they would have to return as soon as possible . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 27 | Parked in the multi storey car park in Guildon and were walking along and like there 's all this , you go down to the ground floor and then you 've got the first and second and er you can get to the first floor where it 's like the first floor the first floor is just above sort of street level |
| 28 | The house has two good sized reception rooms on the ground floor with a kitchen extension just behind the first floor we have the bathroom , the rear elevation and two bedrooms also access to the third bedroom which has been converted from the attic . |
| 29 | A thief just walked into the first floor office at Newman Lane industrial estate and then made off . |
| 30 | Recent visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art who have entered its restaurant have encountered a newly acquired sculpture squeezed onto the first floor landing which now serves as gift shop , restaurant lobby and Greek and Roman antiquities gallery . |