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Elles dormirent dans la voiture parce qu'elles ne purent trouver d'hôtel.
They slept in the car because they couldn't find a hotel.
Example taken from data source: Tatoeba_v2022-03-03 Ainsi Adolf Eichmann, Johann von Leers, Walter Rauff et Josef Mengele purent gagner l’Argentine.
Thus Adolf Eichmann, Johann von Leers, Walter Rauff and Josef Mengele could escape to Argentina.
Example taken from data source: Wikipedia_v1.0 Les Français purent conserver le village de Marengo et la ligne du Fontanone jusqu'à midi, avec leurs deux flancs exposés.
The French held Marengo village and the line of the Fontanone until about noon, with both flanks in the air.
Example taken from data source: Wikipedia_v1.0 Après quatre semaines de combats intensifs, les Alliés atteignirent la Roer, mais ne purent établir aucune tête de pont dessus.
After four weeks of intensive fighting, the Allies reached the Roer, but were not able to establish any bridgeheads over it.
Example taken from data source: wikimedia_v20210402 Une nouvelle fois, ils purent communiquer.
Again they tried to communicate.
Example taken from data source: CCMatrix_v1 Plus récemment, en 1990-96, environ 180 000 Pontiques, la plupart descendants de ceux qui avaient fui leur patrie, purent quitter la Russie, le Kazakhstan et la Géorgie pour arriver en tant que réfugiés en Grèce.
More recently, in 1990-96, about 180,000 Pontians, mostly descendants of those who fled from their homeland, could leave Russia, Kazakhstan and Georgia, and arrive as refugees to Greece.
Example taken from data source: UNPC_v1.0 Les soldats ne purent rien entreprendre jusqu'au printemps.
The soldiers could do nothing until spring.
Example taken from data source: Tatoeba_v2022-03-03