Example sentences of "[noun] to the first floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Misreading the crumpled instructions I took the steps to the first floor , realised I should be on the fourth , so ran and eased myself through the closing lift doors , coming face to face with Malc . |
| 2 | Now , if we say no , the project will still go ahead , but it will be slightly scaled down , and there will be a meeting later this month to decide how to revise the spec erm , it 's possible for example , that the lift to allow disabled visitors to the first floor would not be included if the twenty thousand pounds were n't forthcoming . |
| 3 | The association with a traditional barn incorporating porches has been skilfully exploited in order to broaden the width of the building at its centre so that an enclosed entrance porch and a generous ‘ dog-leg ’ staircase , giving access to the first floor , could be included on one side , while the equivalent projection on the west side houses an oriel window serving the dining-room which gives a commanding view over the Cherwell Valley . |
| 4 | Disabled people and mothers with pushchairs would find no steps in the mall and access to the first floor is by escalator or lift . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course , we have n't time to give it more than a catlick , ’ she came to realize as we staggered up the grand flight of stairs to the first floor . |
| 6 | It was a dark house , Mary Rose thought , climbing the stairs to the first floor . |
| 7 | It would have a job flattening that boisterous family , thought Joe as he carried the young woman through the passage and up the flight of stairs to the first floor . |
| 8 | By the time she reached the Campo San Maurizio , she felt so tired that she was almost afraid she would have to climb the cold stone stairs to the first floor on her hands and knees . |
| 9 | She instructed Nina to radio for the county ambulance before climbing the stairs to the first floor of the jig and following the foreman along the boards for about twenty yards until they were able to see the injured man . |
| 10 | Then capping it all is a ceiling of absolute if intricate formality , a prelude and preparation to the first floor rooms that were never to be worked . |
| 11 | At the end of this wall leading off to the left was another passage to the downstairs lobby and the stairway to the first floor . |
| 12 | Leaving Fraser to deal with the occupants of the vaulted basement chambers Douglas and Ramsay raced up the twisting turnpike stairway to the first floor , where would be the great hall , followed by fifty or so mosstroopers . |
| 13 | Cats ' alert : Fire caused at least £10,000 of damage to the first floor of a house in Pannal Avenue , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough last night . |
| 14 | There is a fine oak carved overmantel and an old door opens onto the curved stone stair to the first floor . |
| 15 | She pushed the papers back into the large Crockford and looked round the room , realising there ought to be a servants ' stair to the first floor continuing the one running from the ground floor to the basement . |
| 16 | It has fine balusters and a door to the first floor room behind . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The tiled roof over the single south aisle was stripped off and partly replaced with bronze-coloured aluminium glazing bars framing bronze-tinted ‘ anti-sun ’ glass , the upper panels of which are laid to the same slope as the original roof , the lower panels producing a range of shallow vertical windows , the combination of which gives ‘ conservatory ’ lighting to the first floor flats ( Plate 23 ) . |
| 19 | One has an outside stair , the only way to the first floor before an inside stair was built . |
| 20 | Until now guests at the new premises on Harewood Hill have had to find their own way to the first floor . |
| 21 | He was talking as he led the way along a narrow hall , mounting the staircase to the first floor . |
| 22 | There was an enormous fireplace to one side and a staircase to the first floor wide enough to take a regiment . |
| 23 | Becky led her partner up the wooden staircase to the first floor and began a guided tour . |
| 24 | Replace all metal drainpipes with plastic ones ( which are far too flimsy for anyone to scale ) , remove any trees near the house that would assist ascent to the first floor and absolutely never leave ladders outside the house , front or back , always lock them away . |
| 25 | The dogs followed hard on their heels up the deep-treaded , creaking staircase that made a gradual ascent to the first floor . |
| 26 | HQ switch : The headquarters base of Middlesbrough council 's housing and community services department switches on April 6 from the 16th and 17th floors of Corporation House to the first floor . |
| 27 | The south stair winds past the old buttery to the first floor , where levels change in and out of the - bedrooms and chambers . |