These people had been training for more than a year.
I've been training with them for the last five months.
All those mean things he said about me while training for our fight.
The Chinese, on the other hand, have been training pretty well for several years.
Doing all right meant you were training for a real role.
Therefore I have been training him for a work that must soon be done.
Your mother was training you for this, though she never expected to pass on the power so soon.
Well, they'd been training for that over the past two weeks.
Instead, he was asked to train for the 400m, and won in world record time.
She may have been training for this crisis all her life.
And - as if that weren't bad enough - he was getting ready to murder a large number of house guests.
By the time she gets to the den she's always got another ready.
We tied up at the shore above 21, and got ready.
"I'm just barely getting ready to start being a girl!"
It wasn't fresh news; they'd been getting ready for this mission quite a while now.
I took him off so the house could be got ready and everyone arrive.
The patient lay on the bed to be got ready.
But when I was getting ready that day, doubt didn't come into my mind.
They were going to be late, unless he put that thought aside and got ready.
A few hours later the instruments of torture were got ready.
"Yet how many of you have practiced with the feet alone for 15 minutes?"
Today he practiced with the team for the first time.
After the show I went home and practiced for hours.
He practiced law in his home country for another 22 years.
He had, however, been practicing for hours from 3-point range over the last few days.
This was a role which I had been practicing for a long while.
This was what he'd been practicing for all these years.
After all, we've been practicing that for 500 years on Earth.
And I practiced law in this little town for 18 years.
He practiced law there for two years and began his political career in 1865.
Almost the whole school year is spent practising for these plays.
In any case, the tradition has been practised for at least 700 years.
I've only been practising for a couple of days, so I'm still pretty slow.
After that you'd have thought they'd practised it for years.
Patients must practise the techniques for up to 20 minutes a day.
No doubt she was practising for their first dance together tonight.
He often practised the piano for seven hours a day.
I would practise the piano for three or four hours a day.
A lot of people can't practise for eight hours; they get bored.
The class has to play a concert and everyone is practising for it.