they were investigating
Past progressive they conjugation of investigate.

investigate

As little as I could, they said they were investigating a burglary.
Aussi peu que j'ai pu. Ils ont dit qu'ils enquêtaient sur un cambriolage.
The Embassy immediately informed the Romanian authorities that they were investigating the case.
L’ambassade a immédiatement informé les autorités roumaines qu’elles enquêtaient sur l’affaire.
That they were investigating the magazine.
Eh bien, ils menaient une enquête sur cette revue.
Though police said they were investigating, none of the victims have reported being contacted by investigators.
Bien que la police dit enquêter, les victimes ont déclaré ne pas avoir été contactées par les enquêteurs.
In one of these collaborations with Enrico Magenes, they were investigating inhomogeneous boundary problems for elliptic equations and inhomogeneous initial-boundary value problems for parabolic and hyperbolic evolution equations.
Dans une de ces collaborations avec Enrico Magenes, ils enquêtaient sur des limites non homogènes pour des problèmes elliptiques et les équations non homogènes initiale valeur-limite pour les problèmes hyperboliques et paraboliques équations d'évolution.
They mentioned that in getting information about the things they were investigating from other Member States they sometimes found that they had to write dozens of letters and wait months and even years before they got replies.
Ils ont indiqué que pour obtenir des renseignements relatifs à leur enquête auprès d'autres États membres, ils devaient parfois écrire des dizaines de lettres et attendre des mois, voire des années, avant d'obtenir des réponses.
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