Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [adj] floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 2 | Steering fishily up from an unknown floor . |
| 3 | After a year or so the rope was taken up from the lower floors and wound on to a cleat on the top storey . |
| 4 | Up on the first floor , in the Grill and Cheese , Ken would hold court for his various theatrical acquaintances — although few of them were really close friends . |
| 5 | The old cheese presses which had lain dusty in the stable loft were brought down with difficulty on account of their immense weight and set up on the flagged floor . |
| 6 | Almost all the attractive parts of the house could remain operative : the extensive servants ' quarters — including the back corridor , the two still rooms and the old laundry — and the guest corridor up on the second floor would be dust-sheeted , leaving all the main ground-floor rooms and a generous number of guest rooms . |
| 7 | They found the room in the deserted area , up on the third floor . |
| 8 | Artemis had been busy drawing , sitting on the window seat of the nursery , high up on the third floor of the family wing . |
| 9 | We 're up on the third floor here . |
| 10 | We were up on the top floor and Ralph Horton came up to listen to us and was impressed , although I think he was more impressed with David than us . |
| 11 | The staircase sweeps up to a first floor balcony connecting four bedrooms , most with en suite bathrooms . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He went along the other gallery up to the second floor and his own room . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There is no way up to the upper floor . |
| 21 | Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty . |
| 22 | We 've only really got work for the the labourers in the form , even labourers are n't employed up to the ninth floor cos that work 's already been completed . |
| 23 | ‘ Take me up to the twentieth floor , quickly , ’ she said . |
| 24 | They were smoke-free , due to the fire doors , and allowed the team to carry on straight up to the 4th floor . |
| 25 | I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight . |
| 26 | The only way up to the first floor from inside the works was via a ladder , which had started life as one of The Salisbury Volunteer Fire Brigade escapes , probably acquired by Mr. Farr during his service as a fireman in the early years of the century . |
| 27 | He puffed his way up to the first floor and , finding the outer door open , knocked on the inner one . |
| 28 | Part of the east front of the West Wing , with stairs leading into area VI ( right ) and up to the first floor ( left ) |
| 29 | Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green . |
| 30 | An interesting feature of the mill at Lower Glenastle is an earth ramp up to the first floor . |