Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the first floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were three other rooms on the north side of the first floor . |
| 2 | The saloon , or drawing room , extends the full width of the first floor on the east side above the dining room . |
| 3 | From her pretty cream bedroom in the first floor nursery , Diana enjoyed a pleasant prospect of grazing cattle , a patchwork of open fields and parkland interspersed with copses of pine , silver birch and yew . |
| 4 | Silence of the Lambs star Anthony Hopkins performed the ceremony from the first floor of the Waterford Wedgwood shop in Regent Street , filmed by TV crews from the UK , Canada , Australia and the USA . |
| 5 | Thomas Stocking produced the rococo plasterwork in all the main rooms , and in the eastern bedroom on the first floor there are plaster birds flying overhead . |
| 6 | But Jitka , Katya and Clara O'Neil , aged seven , four and two respectively , were taking every advantage of their father Denis , referred to by them as Pops , because their mother Hana was in the big bedroom on the first floor awaiting the arrival of her fourth child at any minute . |
| 7 | In the bedroom on the first floor Philip woke as the sun came up . |
| 8 | Christina , Stephen and Celia huddled together in the master bedroom on the first floor , listening to the whirlwind hell-bent on destruction . |
| 9 | And she wondered , as she headed for the hallway and the staircase that led up to her bedroom on the first floor , why the fact that that had not happened troubled her so . |
| 10 | Theda was more amused than offended , and when the assistants began scurrying about the little salon on the first floor , bringing samples for her to try , she very quickly fell into a mood of unqualified enjoyment . |
| 11 | Police search officers found the plastic explosive on the first floor of the shop after a telephone warning . |
| 12 | The firm of Wilkes , Son and Cassey ceased trading in 1926 , the business and premises were purchased by The Salisbury Co-operative Society Limited who then only stocked larger items of ironmongery and added a furniture department on the first floor . |
| 13 | They have a department on the first floor ( best reached by door ten ) housing what they call the Plus Collection . |
| 14 | The bomb , which was left in the bargain book department on the first floor of the store , destroyed four units . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the winter the Green Study on the first floor was used ; it was awesome for me following the master there — he was not fond of women novelists with the exception of Evelyn Wharton who had often come to stay at Lamb House . |
| 17 | Later , after looking at the rest of the house , they returned to Edouard 's study on the first floor . |
| 18 | The interior of the Bond Street shop has been remodelled to incorporate a new showroom on the first floor . |
| 19 | Golfers on the course opposite the mansion were treated to the sight of the lady of the house going through her aerobic routine at the windows of the gymnasium on the first floor . |
| 20 | At the end of the spacious triple-arched trainshed a heavily corniced three-storey frontage block was built at the head of twin flights of balustraded stairs rising to the entrance on the first floor . |
| 21 | He brushes her lips with his , then jerks his head in the direction of the first floor . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This time Howard goes shooting tight past the chandelier , up to the level of the first floor . |
| 24 | Its various creepers , wisteria , magnolia grandiflora and Russian vine had been checked at the level of the first floor . |
| 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 | Er I myself went for the nearest exit which was out a window , I assume everyone else erm panicked and I could hear quite a few people running running down the corridor from the first floor . |
| 27 | A paying guest was killed when he tried to get to the bar on the first floor by an emergency staircase . |
| 28 | Someone called Prue , who until today had remained hidden in the wardrobe-room on the first floor pedalling her sewing machine , had a chair allocated for her use in the prompt corner and a space reserved for cotton reels and safety pins on the props table in the wings . |
| 29 | Now came yet another pub : The Crystal Fountain , which was quite a large three storeyed building , having a prominent bay window on the first floor . |
| 30 | I was at the window on the first floor of a large house ( Ladymont ? ) and there was a black horse below . |