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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 claimed, to judge by the verb before him, that the sentence was in the past while Mary seeing the participle before his eyes, swore that it was a present.
Il témoigne par la suite devant les commissions d'enquête sur le naufrage.
He later tested before the investigation commissions on the sinking.
Mary prétendait que Tom était trois mots devant lui, alors que quand il se retourna, il vit qu'entre elle et lui, il n'y en avait bien que deux.
Mary claimed that Tom was three words in front of him, while when he turned around, he saw that between her and him, there were only two.
