Example sentences of "have [be] practising " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile Fernanda Eberstadt has been practising as an expert on captivity and escape , and on the beliefs established for later generations by the children of Israel . |
| 2 | My longcase clocks are entirely handcrafted , with brass and dial work , engraving , silvering , hand piercing and bluing , etc. … undertaken in association with Steve Kelly , the renowned Exeter clockmaker — who has been practising for more than 65 years — and other craft specialists . |
| 3 | STEVE DAVIS has been practising six hours a day during the build-up to the Embassy World championship , such is his determination to win his seventh title . |
| 4 | Considered by many to be the country 's leading authority on the hair and scalp , Philip Kingsley has been practising from the London Trichological Centre , 54 Green Street , London W1 , since 1960 , composing individual trichological treatments for private clients only . |
| 5 | My husband has been practising dying for years . |
| 6 | Seventy-five year old Marcel Callow has been practising his art for more than fifty years . |
| 7 | ‘ Dr Hao is a fully qualified doctor in the western sense , but has been practising Chinese medicine around the world for the past 20 years , ’ he explained . |
| 8 | But he 'd been practising his backhand all year , mentally preparing himself for the North Shore . |
| 9 | We 'd been practising hard and were having a rest , just standing around and the Head Girl was smoking . |
| 10 | He 'd been practising it while I 'd been away . |
| 11 | I think he 'd been practising his pauses . |
| 12 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 13 | And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ? |
| 14 | The idea came at a school council meeting and members of the fours bands , Euphoria , Affected , Jesse 's Hat Collection and Necro-Cannibal Bloodfeast , all Bohunt pupils , had been practising hard . |
| 15 | Some said he had been practising ! |
| 16 | After she had been practising her exercise for about ten days , she had gone out intending to walk to the local post office . |
| 17 | A small hole was dug , the cigarette buried , songs sung over the grave and then the whole procession wended its w ? y round the field four times singing the funeral march from Aida , which we had been practising for a week . |
| 18 | Because of the term 's many meanings , and the confusion they therefore create , it is proposed in these pages to avoid them where-ever possible Resource-based learning , like resource-based teaching , can obviously exemplify " educational technology " in one or other meaning , but a surprising number of teachers would indignantly deny that they had been practising it ; in some cases , this implies disagreement or scepticism with the claims made by some sell styled " educational technologists ' ( meaning 5 ) and in other cases derives simply from a misunderstanding . |
| 19 | He had been practising new openings . |
| 20 | She had been practising it on him for years . |
| 21 | She said in the new , husky voice she had been practising , ‘ Heavens , it 's so hot . |
| 22 | During the trial at the Old Bailey in London 15 witnesses testified that Mr Thorburn , a general manager of an electronics company , had been practising for the Tam o' Shanter golf tournament near his mother 's home in Ayr at the time he was alleged to have raped her . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been practising with a ball on my own . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been practising my serve for weeks . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been practising . |
| 26 | There 's an old clay range up in the woods , and I 've been practising on that . |
| 27 | I 've been practising this mega dance routine . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been practising it myself recently . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been practising . ’ |
| 30 | Well I 've been practising this . |