Sentence examples similar to had begun retreating from inspiring English sources

As a result, he recently has begun retreating from confrontation.

By then he had begun to retreat from the stage.

The artillery Thomas had expected had also been taken by one of his own division commanders after men had begun to retreat, as had his ammunition train.

By the late 1970's, when I undertook my "Conversations With Arrau," he had begun to retreat into a world without words.

Almost as soon as the announcement was made, there were reports in Ethiopia that the prime minister's office had begun to retreat on its admission that there were political prisoners in its jails.

By late afternoon, the remainder of the 2nd and 9th SS Panzer Divisions had begun their retreat to the Seine River.

Soon after midday, the Canadian Grenadier Guards reached Mont Ormel and by late afternoon, the remainder of the 2nd and 9th SS Panzer Divisions had begun their retreat to the Seine.

But by mid-afternoon the hard-pressed British force was beginning to withdraw and by nightfall most had begun the long retreat to River Marne and, eventually, on to Paris, 200 miles away – the beginning of four long years of slaughter.

MacArthur's amphibious landings at Incheon had severed the North Korean Army's supply lines; as a result, North Korea's army had begun a lengthy retreat from South Korea into North Korea.

Indeed, by 1955 these retreats had begun.

The Serbian Army, meanwhile, to avoid double envelopment, had begun an arduous winter retreat westward over the Albanian mountains to refuge on the island of Corfu.