Sentence examples for had actually held from inspiring English sources
My son's primary school had actually held a practice evacuation on the previous day.
The legislation was written behind closed doors, hastily explained to rank-and-file lawmakers and unveiled before either the Senate or the Assembly had actually held any vote.
The 2013 Masters is remembered for Adam Scott's triumph, ending an apparent Australian hoodoo at the event, but Day had actually held a one-stroke lead with three holes to play.
In March of this year the Independent revealed that Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has refused to meet with the Trust for over a year – but had actually held discussions with an American investment bank about tackling child poverty.
The organisers had actually held a traditional Javanese rain stopping ritual—"pawang hujan"—prior to the festival, but it wasn't enough.
Of course, if all those co-opters -- those big, faux progressive organizations, like Moveon, Acorn and some of the biggest unions which sold out for the public option, had actually held tough for single payer, the Dems, in total control now of the house and senate, would have been forced to do the right thing.
Photograph: Thomson Reuters The pound has actually held up quite well against the US dollar.
AMERICAN manufacturing receives a lot of verbal abuse, but it has actually held up very well over the past few decades.
"There are very few people who have actually held a vintage F.S.A. print from the time they were taken," Mr. Pinson said.
Armando Iannucci, the creator of "Veep," said in a phone interview that, despite some obvious recent historical parallels, the character was not based on anyone who has actually held, sought or might seek the vice presidency.
It's a fair bet that Yale undergraduate support for the war in Iraq would not have been as great if the undergraduates had known that a significant number of them would have actually held responsibility for fighting the war.
