Example sentences of "have settled down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never really regretted opting out , and I know that I could never have settled down to a steady shore job while the cutters were still available . |
| 2 | Growing up in a South African mining town , the son of a reasonably successful lawyer , he might easily have settled down to an ordinary , respectable career , following his father into law , perhaps , as one of his cousins did , or becoming an architect like another of them . |
| 3 | The deflation of aggregate demand and the rise in unemployment did appear to reduce the rate of inflation , but once unemployment had settled down at a higher level , the rate of inflation ceased to fall . |
| 4 | They argued that the rapid movements involved in a star 's collapse would mean that the gravitational waves it gave off would make it ever more spherical , and by the time it had settled down to a stationary state , it would be precisely spherical . |
| 5 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 6 | Some of the journalists had already left ; others had settled down to the serious business of getting drunk . |
| 7 | Two days later the sea had settled down after the prolonged gale and we headed north once more through the rock strewn channels and islands . |