11.   My father got all red in the face, spluttered, and beat a retreat down the stairs.

12.   Oddly enough, visitors also beat quick retreats from downtown, with studies indicating that most visit one attraction and then flee to midtown hotels.

13.   Shocked but a little thrilled, Marie beats a retreat to her handsome apartment -- and to Jean.

14.   She swatted and swatted and squirmed and wriggled, but never once beat a retreat.

15.   So Bullock beat a retreat, buying a house in Austin and settling down.

16.   The premiers were forced to beat a retreat and sign the power pact at a different site.

17.   They piled some of the wounded into one of the surviving armored personnel carriers and beat a retreat.

18.   Fifteen minutes later, with mortar shells exploding, they beat a retreat.

19.   Many of the women were left behind enemy lines when the Imperial Army beat a hasty retreat.

20.   Many were killed, or left behind enemy lines when the Japanese army beat a hasty retreat toward the end of the war.