Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] retired from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing had gone on so long they 'd actually retired from nursing . |
| 2 | The ‘ nearest thing she could get ’ to a Lord Ismay was Sir Michael Palliser , who had just retired from the headship of the Diplomatic Service . |
| 3 | IBM Corp traditionally sends departing executives off with glowing resumees of their illustrious careers , so it was striking that the announcement late Friday that former chairman and chief executive officer John Akers had just retired from the company after 33 years was accompanied by the briefest and curtest summaries of his career — after all , the man had significant achievements behind him when he acceded to the top job , and it is arguable that many of the problems that plagued the company during Akers ' tenure were the fault of his predecessors , although it must be said that he was also in the loop at the time . |
| 4 | North had now retired from the Marines and , in his blue suit and ‘ rather bright ’ red tie , he seemed to have shrunk , becoming ‘ forlorn ’ and ‘ pathetic ’ . |
| 5 | What is more , times were on the hard side and access to the capital were perhaps critical for bondholders many of whom had now retired from playing . |
| 6 | But what she did not know was what had happened to those interests — or to him — since Simon 's death , apart from the fact that Vitor had immediately retired from racing . |
| 7 | ‘ Gentleman Jim ’ had previously retired from the ring rather than do combat with a black man , but was tempted in an effort to curb the mounting confidence of blacks and re-establish white dominance in the sport . |
| 8 | One evening Rachel invited her to dinner , to meet some old family friends who had recently retired from academia and moved to London . |
| 9 | Dr Kenneth Duncan was a biologist who had recently retired from the top management of the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 10 | Well he had actually retired from the police force , he 'd been cited and he 'd been cleared , but he was actually , as it turned out later , practising paedophilia and as he realized that in fact the investigation was coming close to him , he shot himself |