Sentence examples of "on the verge of bankruptcy" in English
He was on the verge of revealing the secret when a sharp look from Martha shut him up.
Il était sur le point de révéler le secret lorsqu'un regard sévère de Marthe le fit se taire.
Tom and Mary were on the verge of diving, off the left edge of the sentence, in the infinite corpus, when they spotted underneath a shoal of hungry contributors, teeth out, ready to jump on them and shred their mistakes down to the last one.
Tom et Mary s'apprêtaient à plonger, du bord gauche de la phrase, dans l'infini corpus, lorsqu'ils virent au-dessous un banc de contributeurs affamés, les dents dehors, prêts à leur sauter dessus et à déchiqueter leurs fautes jusqu'à la dernière.
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.
Lors de mon adolescence, je détestais la vie et j'étais continuellement au bord du suicide, mais j'en étais écarté par le désir de connaître plus de mathématiques.
If we were to live on the moon, how large would the earth look?
Si nous vivions sur la lune, de quelle taille nous semblerait la Terre?
I liked walking alone on the deserted beach in the evening.
J'appréciais de marcher seul sur la plage désertée, dans la soirée.
I hope you realize that I'm putting my reputation on the line by helping you.
J'espère que tu rends compte que je mets ma réputation en jeu en t'aidant.
What sort of information do you get on the Internet?
Quelle sorte d'information trouve-t-on sur Internet ?
We asked him on the interphone if he could come downstairs quickly.
Nous lui avons demandé à l'interphone s'il pouvait descendre rapidement.
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