За своими людьми?
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15 mins confidence: 
to find someone? Explanation: far from a direct translation, but it seems to fit the flow and style. |
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3 hrs confidence:
For his own folk? Explanation: An "own folk"- people of the same kind. Example sentence(s):
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4 hrs confidence:
Call for help? Make a phone call? Explanation: The use of two Russian phrases is a bit ambiguous, and this translation preserves that ambiguity. |
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9 hrs confidence:
To get/fetch his people? Explanation: -- |
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7 days confidence:
To fetch someone? Explanation: I'm thinking of the Russian phrase "идти за покупками" and similar. I'd probably translate the two questions as: To fetch someone? To phone someone? |
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