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142 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

French > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

avant que l'on reprenne cette personne à agir

Context:

Le chien avait sans doute subtilisé la chaussure alors que la dame l'avait discrètement...

Keywords:

...mais imprudemment retirée sous la table pendant la réunion. Du temps avait dû passer avant que l'on reprenne cette personne à agir de la sorte, elle qui avait remis dans l'antichambre de Dominique sa seconde chaussure après que le chien, penaud, l'avait déposée à ses pieds....Dog took off with a woman's hoe after she let it fall off her foot while she was sitting around a long desk, during a meeting.

 

 

The answer of   See profile was rated best

quite a bit of time must have elapsed before they caught that woman doing that again

My comment:

This part of the text seems to be badly written: the phrasing is not fluent enough and i would have written eut déposée instead of "avait déposée. For the break in the sentence (",elle qui...), I suggest: "__indeed she had...