we were missing
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Past progressive we conjugation of miss.

miss

Our ancestors, that's what we were missing.
Nos ancêtres, voilà ce qui manquait.
You said we were missing a step?
Tu as dit qu'on loupait une étape ?
Well, we think this is what we were missing.
On pense que c'est ce qu'on ratait.
I knew we were missing someone.
Je savais qu'il nous manquait quelqu'un.
Maybe that thing that we were missing in our petri dishes was not food at all.
Peut-être que la chose qu'il manquait dans nos boîtes de Pétri, ce n'était pas de la nourriture.
We had to take on the Championship series in difficult conditions because we were missing Noora Kosonen.
Nous n’étions pourtant pas dans les meilleures dispositions puisqu’il nous manquait Noora Kosonen au départ.
She must have been here... while we were in the store... and she saw that we were missing.
Elle a dû passer quand on était dans le magasin et ne pas nous voir.
Just around that time where I was making that observation, I looked across the border of Iraq and noticed there was another story we were missing: the war in Syria.
Au moment où je faisais cette observation, au-delà de la frontière de l'Irak, j'ai remarqué qu'une autre histoire nous manquait : la guerre en Syrie.
We were going to play a game of checkers but we were missing a few pieces.
Nous allions jouer une partie de dames mais il nous manquait quelques pièces.
We spent ten minutes scrabbling around on the floor because we were missing a puzzle piece.
Nous avons passé dix minutes à fouiller par terre parce qu'il nous manquait une pièce du puzzle.
We were missing for a long time.
On a été absent pendant un long moment.
We were missing for a long time.
On a été absents très longtemps.
We were missing for a long time.
On tournait complètement en rond, vous voyez ?
We were missing only a second bedside lamp for reading, but names in the evening lamp out of the room with it.
Nous manquait seulement une deuxième lampe de chevet pour la lecture, mais les noms dans la lampe de soirée hors de la salle avec elle.
We were missing the stories about Iraq, the people who live there, and what was happening to them under the weight of the war.
Il nous manquait des reportages sur l'Irak, sur les gens qui y vivaient, et ce qui leur arrivait sous le poids de la guerre.
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