71.   The young man said something about searching for doors and windows missing from his own apartment and beat a hasty retreat.

72.   Worried ground controllers told them to beat a hasty retreat without rearranging the scattered equipment.

73.   Within minutes of the proceedings, irate shareholders unleashed their wrath on chairperson Rita Singh who beat a hasty retreat.

74.   Greek journalists said some Turkish vessels repeatedly encroached into Greek waters around the islet before beating a hasty retreat as the Greek ships began to react.

75.   A public outcry at these proposals forced him to beat a hasty retreat before union hostility.

76.   But the hasty retreat option has been almost totally ruled out.

77.   The Zairean army beat a hasty retreat, hit by a pincer movement combining mainly Tutsi Zairean rebels from the south and Ugandan troops pouring in from the east.