Example sentences of "[conj] you [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] down " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Or do n't tell me that all those questions about Ryan were simply so that you could track him down and make him pay the money back ? ’
2 They were very attractive and they did have the advantage that you could take them down and plunge the whole thing in water and wash it and er
3 Okay , it right , erm , nought point five three , you 're obviously going to do these quicker than I can write them down , so you can write them down .
4 Can you help out ? he 's paying in gold and you can melt it down and make a new battleaxe that will never go rusty .
5 ‘ Call me old-fashioned , and you can shoot me down in flames if I 'm telling a fib , but I 'm pretty much upfront and hands on when it comes to megastardom .
6 ‘ I 'll go ahead , and you can join me down on the beach . ’
7 Your first offer should be about half what the merchant asks and you should beat him down from there . ’
8 but until it 's it 's the same with any subject you know until you know what you 're doing until you can tie it down to something physical and until you can understand I mean you always understand by similarities
9 ‘ I wondered if you would drive me down to the town in the van . ’
10 Even if you could hold him down you might easily cut too far and hurt him . ’
11 The authentic taste requires these wontons to be hot and spicy , but you may tone it down a bit by reducing the amount of chilli oil .
12 But you could delegate it down could n't you .
13 Oscars come from water with a low pH , and so you may have problems with the viability of the eggs/sperm unless you can get it down to 6 or less .
14 on a lot of systems , really now is the time for you to try and go and buy a new system , because you can knock them down immensely really good bargains the basic
15 Yeah well that 's not so bad as long as you can get her down at a reasonable hour and get to sleep .
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