Sentence examples for had practised from inspiring English sources

Day after day they had practised their killing drills.

The team had practised "every day", she insisted.

He said he had practised as a lawyer.

Until the novels started, Brookner had practised purely as an art historian.

He had practised fisting but disputed the claim that the images were extreme pornography.

He had practised archery as young man in Durban, he explained to his officials.

The first recruits to Islamic State had practised an extreme interpretation of Islam all their lives.

Like the SAS, civil servants had practised the drills so often that they were second nature.

"The writing was quite fiddly," he says (he had practised on a sheet of paper).

Those who did were asked to estimate how many hours a week they had practised at different ages.

Mishka had practised a form of tyranny characteristic of governesses, that almost vanished feature of European education.