Example sentences of "settle down [conj] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last decade he had spent in Vienna , obtaining sufficient funds from his family to be able to settle down and marry the only Russian girl amongst his acquaintances . |
| 2 | You got letters from home , from your father asking when you were going to settle down and get a proper job , or were you going to be an ‘ eternal student ’ ? |
| 3 | They seem to settle down and learn the language and then they suddenly become desperate and want a crumpet or something . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm under constant pressure from the family to settle down and raise a huge brood , but the thought just leaves me cold . ’ |
| 5 | BELFAST jockey Pat McWilliams is beginning to settle down and ride a few winners since he returned from England before Christmas facing an uncertain future . |
| 6 | By 1863 she was ready to settle down and enjoy the charms of a pastoral , grandmotherly existence at her home in Berry , where Flaubert duly visited her . |
| 7 | They came here to settle down and have a happy life . |
| 8 | I love him a lot but long to settle down and have a family of my own . |
| 9 | Interviews carried out for the project 's research paper indicate that many prostitutes ‘ just want to settle down and have a family ’ . |
| 10 | Here I am all in one piece if tiny pock-marked from a flying bottle , and trying to settle down and see the war out without firing a shot . |
| 11 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 12 | ‘ He chopped and changed the side at whim and never allowed any team he selected to settle down and establish a set pattern of play . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps he should abandon thoughts of privateering ; perhaps he should settle down and make a home . |
| 14 | The second is to remove all of the fish , totally rearrange the rockwork and then put them back into the tank , including the new one and they should then soon settle down and establish the pecking order , which should also include the newcomer . |