they had held
-avaient tenu
Past perfect they conjugation of hold.

hold

And I had always wondered if they had held something back, and today, I finally pried it out of them.
Et je me suis toujours demandé s'ils ne cachaient pas quelque chose, et aujourd'hui, j'ai réussi à faire parler l'un d'entre eux.
On Monday evening they had held a conference at the home of Nicodemus, which lasted until the dawn of day, and thirty of them had elected to enter the kingdom.
Le lundi soir, ils avaient tenu, chez Nicodème, une conférence qui avait duré jusqu’à l’aube, et trente d’entre eux avaient décidé d’entrer dans le royaume.
As noted in the following table, during 2002 women held 16.05 per cent of high-level positions in the State Administration, whereas in 1996, they had held 10.5 per cent.
Comme on peut le voir au tableau ci-dessous, les femmes occupaient en 2002 16,5 % des postes de responsabilité, contre seulement 10,57 % en 1996.
They had held wide consultations and had attempted to take all views into account.
Ils ont tenu de larges consultations et se sont efforcés de tenir compte de toutes les vues exprimées.
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