Sentence examples of "faisaient" in French with translation "act"

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Il nous fit office de guide. He acted as our guide.
Il vaut mieux faire que dire. It is better to act than to talk.
Il fait une bonne action par jour. He does a kind act once a day.
Je les ai attrapés sur le fait. I caught them in the act.
Je les ai prises sur le fait. I caught them in the act.
Je l'ai pris sur le fait. I caught him in the act.
Je les ai attrapées sur le fait. I caught them in the act.
Il a fait semblant d'être malade. He acted as if he were ill.
Je les ai pris sur le fait. I caught them in the act.
Est-ce que ce médicament fait effet rapidement ? Does the medicine act quickly?
Elle a fait comme si elle ne savait rien. She acted as if she knew nothing.
Ce n'est pas la volonté qui nous fait agir, mais l'imagination. It's not our will that makes us act, but our imagination.
Tu fais semblant de me connaître ; c'est la première fois que nous nous rencontrons. You're acting like you know me; this is the first time we're meeting!
S’il fallait absolument choisir, j’aimerais mieux faire une chose immorale qu’une chose cruelle. If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
Tout fait quelconque de l'homme, qui cause à autrui un dommage, oblige celui par la faute duquel il est arrivé à le réparer. Any act whatever of a man, which causes damage to another, obliges the one by whose fault it occurred to compensate it.
Être "très occupé" ça ne veut pas dire courir dans tous les sens et faire comme si on avait le temps pour rien ni personne. Being "really busy" does not mean running around and acting like you don't have time for anyone or anything.
Rien ne fait l'effet de meilleur antidote à l'amour que de jeunes hommes et femmes faisant ensemble de la géométrie à huit heures chaque matin. Nothing acts as a better antidote for romance than young men and women doing geometry together at eight o'clock every morning.
Rien ne fait l'effet de meilleur antidote à l'amour que de jeunes hommes et femmes faisant ensemble de la géométrie à huit heures chaque matin. Nothing acts as a better antidote for romance than young men and women doing geometry together at eight o'clock every morning.
Car qu'est la quantité de toutes ses prières, sinon une tentative de faire changer d'avis au Tout-Puissant pour qu'il agisse autrement qu'il ne fait ? For what is the amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does?
Car qu'est la quantité de toutes ses prières, sinon une tentative de faire changer d'avis au Tout-Puissant pour qu'il agisse autrement qu'il ne fait ? For what is the amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does?
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