"I think we had been practising that on holiday!
Less typically, Lefeuvre is French and, until March this year, had been practising in Rennes, Brittany.
The Naghmeh-Baran (the melody of rain) ensemble had been practising for six months.
From the first day we got together we had been practising penalties.
Turner was elated to discover that Goethe had put into words what he had been practising on canvas for years.
Soldiers had been practising their job in one of the largest tracts of hardwood forest in central Indiana.
The new Congolese forensic science team had been practising on cloth dummies in mock graves, he said.
Louise, a woman in her 50s who had been practising yoga for 20 years, went away to a meditation retreat.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson had been practising privately since 1865 but had not been licensed to work in a hospital.
Another sang terrible disco songs and showed me dance steps she had been practising for five years in secret.
I had been practising and working out a way of making a living from sewing," she says.
