Example sentences of "to the [num ord] floor " in BNC.

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1 It was the last block in the street and the side wall was supported by a network of wooden scaffolding that stretched all the way up to the fifth floor .
2 I was escorted to the fifth floor and shown in to a riverside suite which was named after Sir Charles Chaplin , because he always used to stay there when he visited London .
3 He went into the building , up in the lift to the fifth floor , and called a conference among his senior colleagues .
4 Moving the Contemporary art to the fifth floor provided room adjacent to the American Painting and Sculpture galleries .
5 We park in the underground car-park , catch a special lift to the fifth floor and walk across the corridor into a special conference room . ’
6 Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms .
7 ‘ Take me up to the twentieth floor , quickly , ’ she said .
8 She takes the lift to the seventh floor and walks along a carpeted corridor until she comes to a room whose door is slightly ajar .
9 Soon afterwards , the man went to the seventh floor of a nearby building , smashed a window with a chair and jumped to his death . ’
10 He rode the lift to the seventh floor and walked the length of the deserted corridor to the last of the suites of offices .
11 The Science Department situated on the 2nd Floor of a three storey block was supplemented with two additional laboratories , including project and practical areas , by undertaking alterations to the 1st floor accommodation .
12 We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat .
13 There are three staircases in the house , including a great one of oak which leads right up to the second floor , where the rooms are spacious — not designed for servants — and the views stretch to the Long Mynd .
14 Tammuz led the way up to the second floor , where he 'd spread himself out through two labs , an office and a washroom .
15 Blake then went up to the second floor of the block and along to the main window .
16 To get there you had to pass an unsteady table of jewellery and climb a flight of worn-lipped , stone steps to the second floor .
17 There was no lino covering on the stairs leading to the second floor .
18 Her head pounding , she took the stairs to the second floor two at a time .
19 Marlin had given them both a detailed description of the assailant , and instructions to let nobody up to the second floor without Ms Odell 's permission , and even then they were to accompany the visitor to the apartment door , and escort them out if his guest chose not to see them .
20 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 .
21 " Who was that that let me in ? " said Clara , following Clelia meekly up the staircase , and up and up , to the second floor .
22 Sullivan then surrendered the embassy and opened the steel doors to the second floor of the chancery , which the attackers had been trying to batter down .
23 Madeleine and Victorine carted the camp-bed up the stairs to the second floor , into Thérèse 's room .
24 Pascoe arrived prepared for more questions about his trip to the second floor and provided the wording of his note to Mona : ‘ Mona .
25 ‘ Now we 've got two people who admit going to the second floor that afternoon : Pascoe and Hunter-Blair .
26 She intended to go straight to the second floor and find a policeman she could tell about the keys , but when she reached the first floor landing she veered into the newsroom instead .
27 It sounded as though the lift stopped at the first floor but immediately the sounds resumed and it was rising , she thought , to the second floor .
28 He went along the other gallery up to the second floor and his own room . ’
29 She made her way to the second floor , her frown deepening as she looked about her , properly taking in her surroundings for the first time .
30 The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen .
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