cook
Up to now the local population had been cooking in their firewood-fed bonfire kitchen putting their pots and pans over three stones. | Hasta ahora, la población local cocinaba en sus cosas con hogueras de leña, colocando las cazuelas sobre tres piedras. |
He had been cooking and cleaning all of his life. | El había cocinado y limpiado toda su vida. |
As she said, this scheme had been cooking a long time. | Como ella dijo, "Este asunto se está preparando mucho tiempo" |
I had been cooking mushrooms the wrong way my entire life. | Toda mi vida cociné mal los hongos. |
The above was a culmination of something that had been cooking for a while. | Lo de arriba fue una culminación de algo que él había estado cocinándo hace rato. |
Following that first announcement, the contents of the reforms that Alemán and Ortega had been cooking up in secret began to be revealed. | A partir de ese día, comenzaron a conocerse los contenidos de las reformas que construían hasta entonces en sigilo Alemán y Ortega. |
This measure had been cooking since the first days of this Administration when some officials brought to light the possibility of authorizing the imposition at a national level. | Esta medida se venía cocinando desde los primeros días de esta administración, cuando algunos funcionarios sacaron a la luz la posibilidad de que se autorizara la imposición a nivel nacional. |
If we happened to agree, this man would take us to that site at that very moment, as they were about to uncover the curanto that had been cooking underground for several hours. | Este señor nos llevaría hasta el lugar, si aceptábamos, en ese mismo momento, ya que estaban a punto de destapar el curanto que se cocinaba bajo tierra desde hacía varias horas. |
Hector Lopez and his spouse Lupita were members of the community who had been cooking hot meals for the migrants in the plaza shortly before it was cleared by police; they later scrambled to rescue as many supplies as they could. | Héctor López y su esposa Lupita eran miembros de la comunidad que había estado cocinando comidas calientes para las/os migrantes en la plaza poco antes de que la policía los despejara; más tarde, se apresuraron a rescatar todos los suministros que pudieron. |
My mother had been cooking supper for two hours when I got home. | Mi madre había llevado dos horas preparando la cena cuando llegué a casa. |
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