"chases down" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is commonly used to describe a person or animal pursuing and capturing someone or something. For example: - The police officer chases down the suspect, finally catching him after a long foot chase. - The cheetah chases down its prey, using its incredible speed to catch the smaller animal. - The dog chases down the frisbee and brings it back to its owner, wagging its tail eagerly. - The young girl chases down her little brother, giggling and trying to tickle him. - The runner chases down his personal record, pushing through the pain and exhaustion to achieve his goal.
It's a dunderheaded thriller about an emergency services operator who chases down and battles a serial killer.
You get from German teams, whatever the nationalities of players wearing their colors, a fighting spirit that sometimes chases down lost causes.
The South African actor Daniel Bonjour gives a creditable performance in the Fox Mulder role, a government agent who chases down reported U.F.O.
And he chases down some interesting facts of debatable pertinence, for instance that Jack Ruby owned a Chicago club where Davis performed in the late 40's.
The company, based in Jeffersonville, Ind., now chases down late accounts for more than 900 library systems, including the New York Public Library, several in Canada and two in England.
She also chases down efflorescences of wealth — its acquisition and its decline — across the globe, visiting the construction site of a Beijing hotel named for, and inspired by, the Château de Maisons-Laffitte.
And there he is bounding into the point and leaving no sinew in his body unstretched as he chases down serves that would have breached the defences of all others.
She chases down every lead in Jell-O's history, but her new book, "Jell-O: A Biography" (Harcourt), sticks resolutely to a Jell-O-flavored philosophy: fun and color and silliness are nothing to be ashamed of, nutrition be damned.
The Ethiopian army chases down and confiscates herds from nomads whom they suspect of smuggling livestock out of Ethiopia.
It chases down 60 mph in less than six seconds, has an Active Body Control (ABC) suspension setup that actively adapts to both suspension movements and body vibrations and makes corrections to car attitude within milliseconds.
Admittedly, "Hawaii 5-O's" new McGarrett is a buff ex-Navy SEAL who chases down a culprit or two in nearly every episode.
