Example sentences of "have settle down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years it has settled down to the equivalent of ‘ dinner for two ’ , thus about £60 in 1990 in Greenock . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then , once I am at home , I usually think the whole of it was splendid , and hate having to settle down to the monotonous , lonely life of a writer . |
| 5 | She very much doubted Madeleine would be prepared to give up the good time she was having to settle down in the country on Harry 's salary . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had settled down on the settee , watching her every move as she 'd put the kettle on and taken salad and cold meat from the fridge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had not realized that the boundaries of the black hole according to the two definitions would be the same , and hence so would their areas , provided the black hole had settled down to a state in which it was not changing with time . |
| 11 | Some of the journalists had already left ; others had settled down to the serious business of getting drunk . |
| 12 | 52 and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 ) , the law had settled down in the form which I have indicated . |
| 13 | After they had settled down among the bushes , we used to take these do you see . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I think we 've settled down to a pattern of events now which schools have actually indicated to us is what they want to see . |
| 16 | I like the way the lambs have settled down in the field have n't they ? |