Example sentences of "who [verb] recently retired " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story is recounted by the unnamed founder of the Mnemosyne Institute in Philadelphia , an elderly widower who has recently retired after making his millions as instructor to ‘ executives , politicians and members of the defense establishment ’ . |
| 2 | In the words of one former senior civil servant , who has recently retired , the DoI ‘ has become an interventionist department within a non-interventionist government ’ . |
| 3 | But urgently needed is a BBC radio engineer , maybe one who has recently retired . |
| 4 | One evening Rachel invited her to dinner , to meet some old family friends who had recently retired from academia and moved to London . |
| 5 | Dr Kenneth Duncan was a biologist who had recently retired from the top management of the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 6 | She gave the name of her father , who had recently retired with a substantial pension from a very senior appointment with a multi-national corporation . |
| 7 | Pointing out the pitfalls of much of the past research , he drew on his study of 125 65-year-old men to argue that those who had recently retired were a ‘ transitional ’ group between those still in full-time employment and those settled into retirement ( Emerson 1959 ) . |