Nous nous demandâmes quel pouvoir il avait pour tenir parole.
We wondered what sort of impossible power he had to keep his promise.
Alors que nous étions dans une pharmacie, nous demandâmes à la vendeuse l’emplacement de la bibliothèque et apprîmes qu’elle avait été déplacée à une très grande distance.
While at a pharmacy, we asked the clerk about the location of the library and learned that it had been moved a considerable distance away.
Nous demandâmes que les tribunaux de New York leur délivre une ordonnance d’habeas corpus.
We demanded that the New York trial courts issue them writs of habeas corpus.
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