Example sentences of "settle down [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susan went to bed early , and Breeze and Gay made themselves toast and welsh rarebit , and settled down for a long evening by the fire . |
| 2 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 3 | After 1772 the " turnpike mania " settled down in a long steady progress to an eventual 22,000-mile peak in 1836 , accelerated only in the widespread speculative investment booms of the early 1790s , 1809 – 12 and the mid 1820s . |
| 4 | Everyone quietly settled down for a long wait . |
| 5 | With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence . |
| 6 | They were enjoying the first fresh food they had had in weeks before settling down for a long , well-earned rest . |
| 7 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |