Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [num ord] 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 They found the room in the deserted area , up on the third floor .
5 Artemis had been busy drawing , sitting on the window seat of the nursery , high up on the third floor of the family wing .
6 We 're up on the third floor here .
7 The staircase sweeps up to a first floor balcony connecting four bedrooms , most with en suite bathrooms .
8 We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat .
9 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 .
10 Tammuz led the way up to the second floor , where he 'd spread himself out through two labs , an office and a washroom .
11 Blake then went up to the second floor of the block and along to the main window .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 He went along the other gallery up to the second floor and his own room . ’
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 ‘ Take me up to the twentieth floor , quickly , ’ she said .
18 They were smoke-free , due to the fire doors , and allowed the team to carry on straight up to the 4th floor .
19 I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight .
20 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 .
21 He puffed his way up to the first floor and , finding the outer door open , knocked on the inner one .
22 Part of the east front of the West Wing , with stairs leading into area VI ( right ) and up to the first floor ( left )
23 Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green .
24 An interesting feature of the mill at Lower Glenastle is an earth ramp up to the first floor .
25 They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor .
26 A bare wood staircase led up to the first floor , which comprised a bathroom and two bedrooms .
27 There were brambles up to the first floor . ’
28 The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house .
29 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 .
30 Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms .
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