He had obviously been carefully coached.

Because she has the potential for being a distinguished Odette, she deserves to be carefully coached in this ballet's nuances.

Even the roboplane which claimed to be an agent of the Machine could have been carefully coached to give that impression.

It was a good answer, Caroline thought; whatever else, Megan had been carefully coached.

Mr. Morvillo also accused him of being carefully coached by the prosecution.

She was carefully coached on what to say and do to impress them.

He had carefully coached the women.

If an item is coached carefully step by step in the early stages the performers are more likely to remember it for future use.

My mother played up well, and the three elder children, who had been carefully coached, really spoke their parts as if they meant them.

The witness had apparently been carefully coached, in anticipation of a rigid cross-examination.