Sentence examples for had actually picked from inspiring English sources

He said fund-raising and enthusiasm had actually picked up since Mr. Obama's disappointing debate performance.

Second, Saldanha had actually picked a fight with a much higher power in Brazil: Pelé.

Then one discovers that Lear was an attentive and informed reader of Darwin; he worked with John Gould, the natural-history entrepreneur who had actually picked apart the varieties of finch that Darwin had brought back from the Galápagos Islands.

Aides said he telephoned Mr. Fabiani, who is stationed at Democratic Party headquarters, and told him that the campaign should make the case that by his calculations, Mr. Bush had actually picked up votes in six of seven counties in Florida where there had been manual recounts.

Others reply that it would be better to go for touchscreen technology complete with software that would prevent voters from voting twice for a candidate, and could, like cash machines, produce two print-outs—one that would enable voters to see who they had actually picked and one for a manual recount, should it be needed.The legitimacy issueThere is, however, a bigger and more immediate question.

And, to their surprise, two other people reported so much nose picking that they had actually picked a hole right trough their nasal septum, the thin tissue that separates the left and right nostrils.

A Interest has actually picked up.

"We have actually picked out the ones that we think are dating," she said.

The shipyard still produces ships, and business has actually picked up in the last two years.

Chrysler, third in sales among the domestic manufacturers, has actually picked up two-tenths of a percentage points.

Only seven people have actually picked a plan with the group's help, Ms. Line said, including three who succeeded on Wednesday, an exciting development for the group.