Usage examples of "arriver à leur cheville" in French with translation to English

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Il ne parvint pas à arriver à l'heure. He failed to come on time.
Les oiseaux ont la capacité de retourner instinctivement à leur nid. Birds have a homing instinct.
Il a couru pour arriver à temps. He ran, so as to arrive on time.
Les mères avaient coutume de dire à leur fils qu'ils deviendraient aveugles s'ils se masturbaient. Mothers used to tell their sons that if they masturbated they would go blind.
Je veux arriver à l'hôtel avant qu'il fasse nuit. I want to reach the hotel before it gets dark.
Les parents peuvent transmettre bien des maladies à leur progéniture. Parents can pass many diseases on to their offspring.
Les avez-vous déjà vus arriver à l'heure ? Have you ever known them to come on time?
Le problème avec beaucoup de choses sont les idées préconçues que nous avons à leur sujet ! The problem with many things is the pre-conceived ideas we have about them!
Le réparateur devait arriver à midi, mais il s'est retrouvé coincé dans des bouchons pendant plusieurs heures. The handyman was supposed to arrive at twelve noon, but got stuck in a traffic jam for a few hours.
Les vacances ont finalement touché à leur fin. The holidays came to an end at last.
Tom doit arriver à midi. Tom is due to come at noon.
Les colons furent arrachés à leur terre. Settlers were forced off their land.
Ils sont en train de négocier pour arriver à un compromis satisfaisant. They are negotiating to reach a satisfactory compromise.
Nous avons passé toute la soirée à leur parler. We spent the whole evening talking to them.
Je crois que nous pouvons arriver à le faire faire. I believe we can get that done.
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. 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.
La logique est une méthode systématique pour arriver à la mauvaise conclusion en toute confiance. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
Il n'est nul besoin de faire appel à leur aide. There is no need to call in their assistance.
Il a assurément pris des produits dopants pour arriver à courir aussi vite. He must have been on steroids to have run that fast.
Accepter les normes des autres, c'est se soumettre à leur pouvoir. Accepting the other's norms is submitting to the other's power.
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