Sentence examples of "venait" in French with translation "have"
Il venait de finir son devoir lorsque dix heures sonnèrent.
He had just finished his homework when the clock struck ten.
L'enfant creusa une tombe pour son chien qui venait de mourir.
The boy dug a grave for his dog that had died.
Un ami musicien à moi donnait une représentation impromptue d'un morceau qu'il venait de finir de composer.
A musician friend of mine gave an impromptu performance of a piece he had just finished composing.
Elle venait à peine d'entrer dans le bain, que le facteur frappait à la porte avec un colis.
Hardly had she got in the bath when the postman knocked on the door with a parcel.
Madame de Clèves, qui était dans cet âge où l’on ne croit pas qu’une femme puisse être aimée quand elle a passé vingt-cinq ans, regardait avec un extrême étonnement l’attachement que le roi avait pour cette duchesse, qui était grand-mère, et qui venait de marier sa petite-fille.
The Princess of Cleves being at those years, wherein people think a woman is incapable of inciting love after the age of twenty-five, beheld with the utmost astonishment the King's passion for the Duchess, who was a grandmother, and had lately married her granddaughter.
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