Example sentences of "[adv] settled down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made his debut a week or two after joining us and soon settled down at left-half , making the berth his own , but he was not seen at his best until Palace manager Tom Bromilow signed Les Lievesley from Torquay . |
| 2 | Others stoutly denied this matriarchal ascendency , insisting that , following its promiscuous episode , early society soon settled down under a patriarchal régime in which the opposite sex knew its place and kept it . |
| 3 | She was idolised and soon settled down to life with a British family . |
| 4 | At the other end of the scale GM 's long-expressed desire to achieve significant sales of its US cars in Europe has finally settled down to more realistic levels . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's a tough customer , ’ remarked Melissa when they had finally settled down for the night . |
| 6 | On 4 May 1987 a bank holiday Monday , we had just settled down to lunch before watching A Man for all Seasons . |
| 7 | Cursin " he was " cos he 'd just settled down to his kipper . |
| 8 | Perhaps he 'd already settled down under his blanket when Berowne arrived . |
| 9 | The Salesian Sisters , who were their hostesses for the weekend , gave them a warm and friendly welcome , and the retreatants quickly settled down in the beautiful house . |
| 10 | They had both settled down to non-smoking . |
| 11 | With practice I learned that those flames instantly settled down to a proper blue flame . |
| 12 | Westminster Evening Institute also settled down to serious work . |
| 13 | The initial alarm that had swept over her in the apartment had now settled down into a tight knot of almost sick apprehension , which lay like heavy lead deep in her stomach . |
| 14 | You have now settled down with Bria 's mother , model Nicole Mitchell . |
| 15 | After the frantic design years of the early 1980s board design has now settled down to a fairly stable format and it is only construction techniques that are still changing slightly . |
| 16 | My pair of Birchirs have now settled down in their new home and are feeding very well on a plentiful supply of garden worms . |
| 17 | He 's a Russian émigré — came out just after the Revolution , although he had been part of it himself , and I do n't think he 's ever really settled down to ordinary life . |
| 18 | In spite of our interest in island life , and all our new experiences there , my wife had never really settled down to the complete contrast in living conditions . |
| 19 | And if we do n't have kids we are either trying to have them or wondering why we 're not having them ( maybe we have n't settled down like all our friends : is something wrong with us ? ) . |
| 20 | Everyone quietly settled down for a long wait . |