Example sentences of "[adv] withdrew from " in BNC.

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1 He could not raise the additional finance to purchase the bacon-curing business so withdrew from the agreement , recovered his £1,000 deposit and purchased a yacht with the intention of doing charter work to the Caribbean .
2 They soon withdrew from it , it was too hot to hold long .
3 On Joseph Freame 's death in 1770 , the Barclay interest in the bank continued through his sister Priscilla 's two sons by David Barclay , David and John , who progressively withdrew from their father 's linens trade because of the American war , which they strongly opposed .
4 By the late 1960s Pakistan had ceased to participate in military exercises within the framework of SEATO and CENTO and it eventually withdrew from SEATO .
5 However , Pakistan was accepted into the Non-Aligned Movement once it formally withdrew from CENTO in 1979 .
6 On Dec. 29 Eitan 's right-wing nationalist Tsomet Party formally withdrew from the ruling coalition .
7 He gradually withdrew from his duties at Newgate and he signed his last Ordinary 's Account on 30 April 1725 .
8 From this point H. B. Condy gradually withdrew from the business while continuing his interests in industrial chemistry , foreign travel , and horse-riding .
9 Ian Hunter ( knee injury ) yesterday withdrew from England 's squad for the international against Scotland on 6 March and his position on the replacements ' bench has been taken by Bath centre Phil De Glanville .
10 The three ministers belonging to the CDU ( which had been under pressure from its West German counterpart to dissociate itself from the regime ) also withdrew from the coalition on Jan. 25 " to make way for negotiations " but would continue in a caretaker capacity .
11 He also withdrew from presidential elections due to be held on Oct. 16 .
12 They later withdrew from the competition .
13 Eliot may have experienced displeasure at racial mixing in After Strange Gods , which he later withdrew from print as ‘ a bad book ’ , but it was no coincidence that in the same year as the performance of The Rock he defended Frazer , but attacked Ezra Pound 's favourite , Leo Frobenius , whose anthropological doctrines of racial purity he found particularly distasteful .
14 Iceland later withdrew from the commission .
15 However when he temporarily withdrew from the race she switched to Bill Clinton .
16 Estlin now withdrew from the BFASS , demonstrating for one last time his use as a barometer of sentiment in intra-reform relations .
17 Aoun 's troops immediately withdrew from some of the positions they had gained , and a ceasefire was called .
18 About 10 foreigners were among the victims of political violence in 1989 , with the result that foreign aid workers , archaeologists and tourists increasingly withdrew from or avoided rural areas .
19 There were some who denied their loss and held on to formulas of belief but by far the largest numbers of devotees simply withdrew from political activity into a position of depression .
20 After the release of the lacklustre concert album , Big Time , in 1988 , Waits virtually withdrew from music to concentrate on his burgeoning movie career .
21 In 1564 he abruptly withdrew from Moscow and threatened to abdicate .
22 Drew then withdrew from the 200 metres and I was asked to run .
23 His close rival , the Maharaja of Rewa , reached a total of 500 and then withdrew from the contest .
24 Wallace then withdrew from the contest after running 51 7 miles in 7 7 hours .
25 ANDRE Agassi 's first tournament appearance for two months was still up in the air last night even though he officially withdrew from next week 's grass court event in Halle .
26 During 1990 and 1991 they steadily withdrew from the work of all-union bodies , including the Congress of People 's Deputies and Federation Council , and suspended contributions to the USSR budget .
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