Example sentences of "i would settle for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd settle for a few years with four legs like a cheetah and be able to go at forty miles an hour , ’ Otley declared . |
| 2 | Failing that I 'd settle for reincarnating as either Paul Raymond , Madonna 's fingers , Phil 's meat pie collection , Ian Osborne 's dentist ( not that he 's ever been to see one , mind you ! ) , a bar of soap in an all-girl boarding school or a big black cat named Thad ! |
| 3 | I 'd settle for an equal share . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd settle for a sandwich . ’ |
| 5 | " I 'd settle for any decent , dry bank , myself " he thought , " as long as there was some grass and no men with guns . |
| 6 | I 'd settle for that . |
| 7 | I 'd settle for you . |
| 8 | But I 'd settle for you sitting still for a while . " |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd settle for a Big Mac . |
| 10 | A shotgun would be ideal , though I 'd settle for a .22 rifle , but a crossbow will just have to do . |
| 11 | As a definition for the essence of education I would settle for ‘ the mastery of the processes by which knowledge can be acquired and a maturity and sympathy gained from exposure to the mainstreams of intellectual thought ’ . |
| 12 | Skimmia females need male pollinators to produce berries but I would settle for Skimmia reevesiana " Rubella " ( male ) for its attractive red flower spikes — it makes a compact shrub . |
| 13 | I would settle for that . |