s'étaient construits
Pluperfect ils/elles conjugation of se construire.

se construire

Des corps qui s'étaient construits pour tirer parti de chaque calorie se sont retrouvés noyés sous les calories exédentaires du régime alimentaire occidental de l'après-guerre.
Bodies that were built to hang onto every calorie found themselves swimming in the superfluous calories of the post-war Western diet.
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