they had wanted
-avaient voulu
Past perfect they conjugation of want.
If they had wanted water, they could have had it.
Ils auraient pu se procurer de l'eau s'ils l'avaient voulu.
Some return and some do so much sooner than they had wanted, and there is thus a risk of them bringing the FMD virus with them.
Certains reviennent, parfois plus tôt qu'ils ne l'auraient voulu, et il y a donc un risque qu'ils ramènent avec eux le virus de la fièvre aphteuse.
By the end of summer 2006 I had finished a complete draft of the book, and I now understood why they had wanted me to go back to Darjeeling before completing it.
Vers la fin de l'été 2006, j'avais terminé un brouillon complet du livre, et je comprenais maintenant pourquoi ils voulaient que je retourne à Darjeeling avant que je ne le complète.
Although the newspapers that had obtained the Snowden files could have exerted enormous contractual power if they had wanted to broker an agreement with the U.S. government to protect Snowden, none of them did.
Bien que les journaux qui avaient obtenu les dossiers Snowden auraient pu exercer un énorme pouvoir s’ils avaient voulu négocier un accord avec le gouvernement US pour protéger Snowden, aucun d’entre eux ne l’a fait.
The person at the podium seemed pleased and stated that they could have harmed me or Gonzales in his established cover life if they had wanted and they had chosen not to.
La personne se tenant sur le podium semblait contente et a dit qu’ils pouvaient me faire du tort ainsi qu’à González, s’ils le voulaient, mais qu’ils avaient choisi de ne pas le faire.
They had wanted Congress to outlaw copying full-stop.
Ils voulaient que le Congrès interdisent complètement la copie.
They had wanted to take the money to Moscow, from where they received orders from an unidentified man called Serguei.
Les Ukrainiens avaient voulu rapporter l'argent à Moscou, d'où ils avaient reçu leurs ordres d'un homme non identifié appelé Serguei.
They had wanted to celebrate it publicly at the Wat Phnom Buddhist temple, but following the refusal the union decided to rent a private venue.
Ils souhaitaient le faire publiquement au temple bouddhiste de Wat Phnom, mais devant le refus des autorités, le syndicat a décidé de louer un lieu privé.
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