Example sentences of "have retired from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
2 | Mr T F Connolly , the former Chief Welfare Officer , has retired from the post of Welfare Adviser . |
3 | Mrs C W Crawford has retired from the post of Administrator at Richard Peck House and has been replaced by Mrs A Mulvey . |
4 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
5 | Having retired from the Navy , Stockdale became a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University , California . |
6 | Section 39 Trustee Act 1925 provides that where a trustee desires to be discharged from the trust and where after his discharge there will be either a trust corporation or at least two individuals to act as trustees , then if the trustee by deed declares that he desires to be discharged and his co-trustees consent , he shall be deemed to have retired from the trust . |
7 | Subsequently Sidonius seems to have retired from the limelight until the fall of Majorian , and the elevation of Anthemius , for whose first consulship in 468 he also delivered a panegyric . |
8 | Abas , who had retired from the intelligence services in 1988 , was alleged to have been responsible for human rights violations during the period of military rule in 1980-83 . |
9 | Another influential grandfather was a Scots miner who had retired from the pit to become the gardener of a big house at Broomie Knowe . |
10 | Fierce , sourly wise old adepts , who had retired from the field of stars , coached the intake of novices in the outer secrets of the art of the Inquisitor , his ken and practice . |
11 | Mummy had retired from the hotel business . |
12 | His father , the Colonel , with his ramrod-straight back , still using his title even though he had retired from the Army more than twenty years ago . |
13 | Rawlings , who had retired from the air force on Sept. 14 in order to comply with electoral rules excluding serving members of the armed forces from candidacy , stood for the National Democratic Congress ( NDC ) [ see p. 39084 ] . |
14 | He had retired from the NFI in August 1989 after 40 years of employment . |