Translation for "podido comprar" to english
Podido comprar
  • could buy
  • i have bought
Translation examples
could buy
Dado que realizar campañas electorales es costoso, los políticos que han amasado fortunas ilícitamente y han podido comprar espacio publicitario, comprar a personas influyentes de los medios de información pública y a veces hasta comprar votos tienen el camino abierto para explotar la situación.
Given that electoral campaigns were expensive to run, the way was open for exploitation by politicians who had amassed illicit wealth and could buy advertising space, influential people in the media and sometimes even votes.
En lugar de depender de la protección mediocre de un patrullero narcoléptico, he decidido ir con lo mejor que he podido comprar.
Instead of relying on the C-minus protection of a narcoleptic beat cop, I decided to go with the best that money could buy.
Por eso he podido comprar carne.
So I could buy meat.
Hubiera podido comprar todos los invernaderos de Inglaterra.
He could buy up all the nurseries in England if he’d wanted to.
Era el mayor aparato de aeromodelismo teledirigido que había podido comprar.
It was the largest remote-controlled model plane he could buy.
Habría podido comprar todo aquel maldito negocio si hubiera querido.
He could buy the whole damned place if he wanted.
Había conseguido el puesto un mes antes de Navidad y se había alegrado de veras porque al fin había podido comprar los ingredientes para una tarta con su propio dinero.
She had got the job a month or so before last Christmas, and she was really happy then because she had her own money at last and could buy the ingredients for a Christmas cake.
—Estaba calculando cuánto aguardiente habrían podido comprar los españoles con este pequeño tesoro si me hubiesen quitado la vida —contestó el gascón, muy serio. —¡Idos al diablo!
- I was calculating how much aguardiente they could buy him Spaniards if they killed me and seized this little treasure the Gascon exclaimed seriously. - To the devil! exclaimed the count.
También Harri hace la misma observación: es hermosa pero no entiende cómo se la ha podido comprar tan grande, y él bromea. En previsión de que crezca, una arraigada costumbre aprendida de su madre, dice, desabotonándosela para disimular la holgura.
Harri thinks the same thing, it’s beautiful, she says, but she can’t understand how he could buy such a loose-fitting jacket, to which he, unbuttoning it to hide the bagginess, replies that it’s a habit he got from his mother, buying things large in order not to grow out of them.
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