Example sentences of "retired from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former Australian captain , who retired from international rugby after the world champions ' 26–3 victory over South Africa in Cape Town in August , inspired a guest XV to a convincing win over the Light Blues . |
| 2 | SEAN LINEEN , the former Scotland centre who retired from international rugby after last summer 's tour to Australia , is preparing for a hectic schedule of three games in five days , writes Graham Law . |
| 3 | Crawford retired from first-class cricket two years later , having scored over 7000 runs and taken more than 600 wickets in his career . |
| 4 | He retired from architectural practice in 1906 and concentrated once again on his utopian schemes for social and economic reform . |
| 5 | When Watt 's master patent for his separate condenser expired in 1800 , he retired from active work . |
| 6 | When this was sold to Dorman , Long & Co. in 1903 Gilchrist retired from active work in metallurgy . |
| 7 | They retired from active officership in 1957 but it is hard to imagine either of them not being still fully involved in whatever spheres of service were still open to them , including the all important regular letters to Eva . |
| 8 | He retired from active service at the end of the war but was recalled in the early summer of 1648 when Parliament found itself facing a serious mutiny in the fleet . |
| 9 | Héctor Jurado Toro who retired from active service ; Justice : Alfredo Ducharme replaced Jésus Moreno Guacarán ; Labour : Jesús Rubén Rodríguez replaced Germán Lairet who resigned ; Information : Andrés Eloy Blanco replaced Luis Vezga Godoy as head of the Central Office of Information ; Tourism : Víctor Gamboa replaced Vladimir Gessen , who became ambassador to Canada , as Minister of State , President of Corpoturismo . |
| 10 | In the nature of things a leavening of the poorer husbandmen ( and yeomen , for that matter ) may be presumed to have been elderly and retired from active farming . |
| 11 | In 1845 Webster took into partnership his assistant Miles Thompson , who had been with the firm since the 1820s , and shortly after that he virtually retired from active business . |
| 12 | In February 1921 he gave up office and soon afterwards he accepted a peerage and retired from active politics . |
| 13 | It was probably as a result of Hall 's ‘ conclave ’ that , ‘ long before the programme came out ’ , he retired from active engagements to design suitable elements for a public building . |
| 14 | He retired from public life for a few years and then returned to full prominence . |
| 15 | In the result , however , Profumo retired from public life and has worked heroically in public and social service for little reward for a number of years . |
| 16 | He retired from public life ( or , just as likely , was not invited to continue in it ) . |
| 17 | But when that failed , he retired from public activity in order to pursue his own business interests . |