Example sentences of "to floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plaster had come away from the walls from ceiling to floor , and along the lower part the bared cement , originally grey , was stained yellow and smelt of urine . |
| 2 | A classical Victorian tower brewery where the brewing process flows by gravity from floor to floor |
| 3 | The library was a comfortable brown room with tall windows to floor level and doors opening on to the terrace with its crumbling balustrade and ornamental urns . |
| 4 | A badly-balanced packet of tapioca crashed from shelf to floor and burst open like a ripe seed-pod . |
| 5 | Seeking to remedy this sad state of affairs , I browsed my way around the bookshop from floor to floor , upstairs and down and in and out of little book-filled rooms that the owners themselves may have forgotten about . |
| 6 | Its most surprising room , covered from ceiling to floor in 17th-century paintings , should be a salon or library ; instead , a dotty stone bathtub was set into one wall at a later date by a lady called Charlotte . |
| 7 | Each tier is pierced by a symmetrical row of windows , the windows varying very slightly from floor to floor — double with rectangle and square , as before but with arched , decorated lintel , single with triangular lintel — and the whole is finished with a stone balustrade . |
| 8 | Here and there the open doors of furnaces glowed a dangerous red , and in the far corner of the building what looked like a stream of molten lava trickled down a curved channel from roof to floor . |
| 9 | Sewell lived in a house in College , and it is pleasing to note that in 1807 , £50 was set aside by the College for furnishing two ground floor rooms in his house , and for applying oil paint to floor , architrave , dado and skirting , in white , and to the walls in a light French gray . |
| 10 | An army of seamstresses repaired costumes and cut and sewed new ones , working in a room that resembled a large draper 's shop with dozens of drawers from ceiling to floor , each crammed with accessories and shoes . |
| 11 | As in all rehearsal studios there were large mirrors from ceiling to floor enabling the Girls to see their mistakes . |
| 12 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 13 | Developed by the Transitions Research Corporation of Connecticut ( owned by Joe Engelberger ) , these refrigerator-sized robots find their way around with the aid of computerised floor maps , and can even , with the help of radio transmitters , use lifts to move from floor to floor . |
| 14 | For d-i-y jobs , there is Sellotape Aluminium Tape , an aluminium foil tape for repair work , which can be painted over , costing £2.59 for a 5m roll ; and Sellotape Carpet to Floor tape , a double-sided cloth tape for fixing mats and rugs to the floor to prevent slipping ; a 5m roll costs £2.49 . |
| 15 | Up in the short-term car-park at Terminal Two , Lewis had to drive from floor to floor before he found a slot in which to put the car . |
| 16 | Laying hardboard : Covering the existing boards with a hardboard underlay is an alternative to floor sanding , which leaves a smooth , flat surface , ideal for thin sheet floorcoverings . |
| 17 | All wood floors suitable for d-i-y installation can be laid directly on to floor boards or concrete floors , assuming that they are level and , in the case of concrete , that there is a damp-proof course to stop any damp from reaching the floor . |
| 18 | This is a small conservatoire , with very heavy and thick , black-lined curtains hanging from ceiling to floor level . |
| 19 | There are illusory curtains , from ceiling to floor , which gently billow into the room as if blown by a warm , gentle breeze . |
| 20 | The room 's huge chandeliers had been lowered to floor level where servants laboriously slotted hundreds of white candles into the newly cleaned silver and crystal holders . |
| 21 | Also , choose a tile cement and grout which is suited to floor tiles , and is water-resistant . |
| 22 | For printing , he uses a wall-mounted De Vere enlarger , with which , to get the size , he shoots literally from ceiling to floor — with many pairs of worn jeans to prove it . |
| 23 | Three single beds , pinned to floor , equidistant . |
| 24 | Ahead of them , a great crack appeared from ceiling to floor in the wall where the double-doors were set . |
| 25 | A great avalanche of steel and concrete had crashed downwards into the shaft which had been the stairwell ; gathering bulk , weight and destructive momentum from floor to floor as it collapsed . |
| 26 | Thin , blue-white tentacles of fire stabbed from ceiling to floor , from desk to hessian screen . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm sorry : he says , as he sets foot to floor . |
| 28 | to floor |
| 29 | He almost lost his balance and tipped the chair over as he scrambled back down to floor level with it . |
| 30 | Another possibility is to have double-hinged solid wooden shutters or panels made for each side of the window , again from ceiling to floor . |