they were checking
-vérifiaient
Past progressive they conjugation of check.
I was so nervous when they were checking.
J'étais si nerveuse quand ils ont fouillé.
I was so nervous when they were checking.
J'étais tellement nerveuse quand ils m'ont fouillé.
I knew they were checking on me.
Je savais qu'ils me surveillaient.
I was told they were checking to see if I was the person they were waiting for that they had loved while on earth.
Ils m’ont dit qu’ils vérifiaient que j’étais la personne qu’ils attendaient, la personne qu’ils aimaient quand ils étaient ici sur terre.
During the Mumbai siege, terrorists were so dependent on technology that several witnesses reported that as the terrorists were shooting hostages with one hand, they were checking their mobile phone messages in the very other hand.
Pendant le siège de Mumbai, les terroristes étaient tellement dépendants de la technologie que plusieurs témoins ont signalé que alors que les terroristes tiraient sur les otages d'une main, ils vérifiaient leurs messages sur leurs téléphones portables de l'autre main.
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