Sentence examples for been practised on from inspiring English sources

She shoots me a pitiful look that has no doubt been practised on many tourists: "7.01am".

It's called "beach nourishment" and it has been practised on vanishing beaches across the world, with varying degrees of success.

In Australia, a professor of poetry has just told the world that questions of comprehensibility seem very minor when "seen in the perspective of the possibilities contained in poetry as it is and has been practised on the planet".

The old terror that has been practised on a horrifying scale in Algeria's internecine war may yet spill over into Europe's cities, in the form of indiscriminate, "new terrorist" operations.

But the other demurred, and said, "except his wife, he might have anything else": however, as he could not resist the oath which he had sworn, or the trickery which had been practised on him, at last he suffered Ariston to carry her away to his house.

5 The generals of the Syracusans, however, when they learned of the deceit which had been practised on them, returned speedily and assaulted the Athenian camp.

Generally, PN was practised one-on-one, and the process was not disrupted by the presence of third parties.

There is no such need for the cruel mistreatment now reported as being practised on one of their own, the diminutive US private Bradley Manning.

"I've been practising on clay for three weeks," he said.

The new Congolese forensic science team had been practising on cloth dummies in mock graves, he said.

Turner was elated to discover that Goethe had put into words what he had been practising on canvas for years.