Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] down the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Choppy 's comments about schools in urban areas is quite interesting , because the first one was actually in Lincolnshire , which in no terms could be regarded as an urban area , and quickly looking down the list — and there are actually about sixty throughout the country — an awful lot of them have been in rural heartlands like Oxfordshire .
2 Then , as the players came thundering down the boards , she joined the stampede , trying to steal the ball and nearly bringing down the pony of a fat child with pigtails , whose mother promptly started yelling at Daisy .
3 If your engine is fitted with a viscous coupled cooling fan and the viscous unit is faulty after running the engine fast for a short time and then slowing down the fan continues to spin freely and even speeds up .
4 Drag and Drop , a facility to move and copy text by selecting it and then holding down the mouse button , is now included .
5 He had not tried , however , and now he was tying up the boat and expertly folding down the sails .
6 Hugh began , but Molly was already up and almost running down the stone steps as if she were hurrying towards some long-planned assignation .
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