Usage examples of "voyant" in French with translation to English

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Elle rougit en voyant cela. She blushed seeing it.
En me voyant, elle était gênée. Seeing me, she was embarrassed.
J'ai ri aux éclats en le voyant. I burst out laughing when I saw him.
En me voyant le bébé commença à pleurer. Seeing me, the baby began to cry.
Elle a fait demi-tour en voyant le serpent. She drew back when she saw a snake.
En me voyant, le chien se précipita sur moi. Seeing me, the dog rushed up to me.
En me voyant, ils se sont soudainement arrêtés de parler. Seeing me, they suddenly stopped talking.
Elle est tombée dans les pommes en voyant l'accident. She blacked out on seeing the scene of the accident.
Il prit ses jambes à son cou en voyant le policier. He took to his heels when he saw a policeman.
Les élèves rirent dans leur barbe en voyant que le professeur avait mis son pull à l'envers. The students laughed under their breath when they saw that the teacher had put on his sweater backwards.
En voyant le visage de sa femme couvert de rondelles vertes, il a eu une attaque. Encore une victime du concombre tueur ! Seeing the face of his wife covered in green spots, he had a heart attack. Yet another victim of the killer cucumber!
Voyant le fils d'une catin jeter des pierres à la foule : "Fais attention, lui dit-il, tu pourrais blesser ton père." Seeing the son of a whore throwing rocks at a crowd, he said: "Be careful, you could hit your father."
Tom affirmait, à en juger par le verbe devant lui, que la phrase était au passé tandis que Mary voyant le participe sous ses yeux, jurait que c'était un présent. Tom was asserting, judging by the verb in front of him, that the sentence was past tense, while Mary, seeing the gerundive under her eyes, was swearing it was a present.
Claude, voyant un homme puissant devant lui, vit que les choses semblaient sérieuses et comprit qu'il n'avait pas ici tout à fait la même pré-éminence qu'à Rome, où personne n'était son égal. Claudius, seeing a mighty man before him, saw things looked serious and understood that here he had not quite the same pre-eminence as at Rome, where no one was his equal.
Je vis là ma sœur. I saw my sister there.
Vue de loin, l'île ressemblait à un nuage. Viewed from a distance, the island looked like a cloud.
Oh! Elle est la créature la plus belle que j'ai jamais vu! Oh! She is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld!
L'homme s'imagine qu'il voit une jeune fille. The man is imagining he sees a young girl.
Tom a vu un saoulard gisant sur la route. Tom noticed a drunkard lying in the street.
Je la vis de nouveau. I saw her again.
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