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  • Or will she astonish the judges with her mind-blowing raw talent, inspire Simon Cowell to don Practised Expression #6 'Benevolent Deity' and have all the judges saying 'One hundred per cent YES.

    The X factor - and other demons juliette 2008

  • The only thing missing is Simon Cowell presiding over the proceedings, wearing Practised Expression #9 'Pained Patience'.

    The X factor - and other demons juliette 2008

  • Or will she astonish the judges with her mind-blowing raw talent, inspire Simon Cowell to don Practised Expression #6 'Benevolent Deity' and have all the judges saying 'One hundred per cent YES.

    Archive 2008-08-01 juliette 2008

  • The only thing missing is Simon Cowell presiding over the proceedings, wearing Practised Expression #9 'Pained Patience'.

    Archive 2008-08-01 juliette 2008

  • Practised archer! — marry, holy sir, I would he would practise something else — cross-bow and long-bow, hand-gun and hack-but, falconet and saker, he can shoot with them all.

    The Monastery 2008

  • Practised and practising are acceptable but not preferable and practise is non-existant.

    Practice E-Guitar 2007

  • Practised creatures, to be sure: yet genteel; and they must have been well-educated — once, perhaps, as much the delight of their parents, as I was of mine: and who knows by what arts ruined, body and mind — O my dear! how pregnant is this reflection!

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Practised in evil — ay, well used to edging her way by tricks and little meannesses from day to day; strong only as a scandalmonger, as one whose tongue was to be feared; ay, so.

    The Growth of the Soil 2003

  • Practised fighter though the Adventurer was, he did not realize the desperate quickness that lurks in barbaric sinews.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Practised fighter though the Adventurer was, he did not realize the desperate quickness that lurks in barbaric sinews.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

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