Sentence examples of "mirent sur écoute" in French
Ils mirent sur écoute les lignes téléphoniques des terroristes.
They tapped the terrorists' phone lines.
Certains groupes religieux mirent sur pied de gigantesques navires générationnels qui voyageaient en direction d'étoiles éloignées, à de nombreuses années du système solaire.
Some religious groups set up gigantic generational ships that travelled many years away from the Solar System to distant stars.
Tout à coup les bombes ennemies se mirent à pleuvoir sur nous.
All of a sudden, the enemy bombs came down on us like rain.
Je t'en supplie, écoute ce que j'ai à te dire jusqu'au bout avant de piquer une crise sur moi.
I'm begging you, before freaking out on me listen to the end of what I have to say.
Sitôt leur réunion terminée, ils se mirent au travail.
As soon as their meeting was over, they set to work.
Les Français sont vraiment un peuple bizarre : parmi ceux qui lisent cette phrase, un sur deux va vérifier si l'espace avant le double point est bien fine et insécable.
The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.
« Autruche ! » et ils mirent tous la tête sous la table.
"Ostrich!"—and everyone stuck their heads under the table.
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