habían

had

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Cuando llegó la policía, los ladrones habían desaparecido.

When the police arrived, the thieves had disappeared.

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Tom dijo que habían entrado a robar en su casa.

Tom said his house had been broken into.

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El dinero que le habían prometido no era, según él, una recompensa suficiente por semejante servicio.

The money that he had been promised was not, according to him, a sufficient reward for such a service.

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Ellos ni siquiera sabían lo que habían encontrado.

They didn't even know what they had found.

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Habían estado fuera durante dos años y cinco meses.

They had been away for two years and five months.

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Hace poco asistí a la boda de un amigo chino. La novia y el novio habían sido compañeros en la universidad, ambos se graduaron de la facultad china. Ya han estado juntos durante cinco años.

Recently I attended the wedding of a Chinese friend. The bride and groom had been classmates at university, and both graduated from the Chinese faculty. They've already been together for five years.

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Todos se habían ido y él se quedó allí.

Eveyone had left, and he stayed there.

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Enterraron a aquellos que habían muerto en la batalla de acuerdo a la tradición militar.

They buried those who had died in battle according to military tradition.

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Muchos se habían muerto.

Many were slain.

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Cuando desperté, el resto de los pasajeros habían bajado.

When I woke up, the rest of the passengers had gotten off.

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Mis ojos aún no se habían habituado a la oscuridad.

My eyes haven't yet adjusted to the darkness.

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Tom recordaba que Mary y John habían intentado matarlo.

Tom remembered that Mary and John had tried to kill him.

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Ellos habían trabajado juntos por intereses comunes.

They had been working together for common interests.

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Era una certeza que los habitantes de esta isla habían cometido crímenes horribles.

It was a certainty that the inhabitants of this island had committed horrible crimes.

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Cuando le dijeron que habían visto a un embajador estadounidense entrando a hurtadillas en la habitación de otra persona, el presidente Kennedy respondió "supongo que tendré que contratar a embajadores más rápidos".

When told an American ambassador had been seen sneaking into someone else's room, President Kennedy remarked, "I guess I need to hire faster ambassadors."

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Pensé que te habían matado. Me alegro de haberme equivocado.

I thought you'd been killed. I'm glad I was wrong.

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Todos los niños se habían ido a la cama antes de anochecer.

All of the children had gone to bed before it got dark.

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Fue obvio que habían mentido.

It was obvious that they had lied.

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Mis padres se habían ido antes de que yo llegara.

My parents had left before I arrived.

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Entonces fue cuando supimos que la oficina central de correos estaba ardiendo y que habían secuestrado a nuestro presidente.

That's when we learned that the main post office was on fire and that they had kidnapped our president.

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