Sentence examples for was actually won from inspiring English sources

The trophy they had already paraded on the night, Sergio Ramos brilliantly dropping it under the wheels of the bus, got another outing – three long weeks after it was actually won.

Even the early convicts had legal rights, and, famously, the first civil action in the Australian courts was actually won by a convict couple who claimed that a parcel of clothes had been stolen from them by a member of the ship's crew on the voyage out in 1788.

"While the big battles like Gettysburg and Fredericksburg garner all the attention, the war was actually won and lost in a multitude of small actions across every corner of the South," said Mike O'Donnell, an author and publisher of books for military collectors.

(She is the great grand niece of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, hero of the Boer War, a character in my screenplay, The War Horses (not the same as Spielberg's) about that war -- which detailed how the African war was actually won on a ranch in the American West when the British cavalry remounted their force with American cow ponies.

"I was actually winning," he said in the dressing room, perhaps a bit shaken by his collapse the previous day.

Alan introduced me to a bewildering hierarchy of presidents, ex-presidents and other officials, none of whom seemed to know or care who was actually winning.

"I don't think we have gone backwards," Lord Triesman said when reminded that one of the targets set for Sven Goran Eriksson, in a blueprint launched in 2001 by the then FA chief executive, Adam Crozier, was actually winning a trophy.

GAME 6 (#10 Kasich vs. #7 Rubio): Sen. Rubio was actually winning this debate against Gov. Kasich when he developed an extreme case of dry mouth and, to everyone's surprise, walked off the stage to find a bottle of water.

He's won! He's actually won!

"More games are lost than are actually won," Shoop said.

But he's actually won three elections, as opposed to Brown's grand total of zero.