Example sentences of "she retired from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Joan Breckenridge it was a mark of popularity that so many colleagues and friends attended her two presentations , when she retired from the company on 20th July , after forty one years of continuous service . |
| 2 | After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests . |
| 3 | She retired from the chairmanship in 1951 but remained active in the association into her nineties . |
| 4 | I think she was a very brave person , for until she retired from the shop , long after our grandparents had died , she slept alone in the big old family house with the shop 's takings under her bed . |
| 5 | On July 22 Assistant Chief Constable Alison Halford , 52 , withdrew her allegations of sex discrimination at work as part of a settlement whereby she retired from the police force with a lump sum payment of £142,600 and an annual pension of £35,836 . |
| 6 | The first of fifteen novels appeared in 1894 ( her early fiction sported the pseudonym of C. E. Raimond ) and she retired from the stage in 1897 and devoted herself to writing . |
| 7 | When she retired from the stage she took her greatest pleasure in her marriage , in travel , in bird-watching , in music , in her vast correspondence , and in the success of her two autobiographies . |