Sentence examples for I once occupied from inspiring English sources

"I now take seminars in rooms I once occupied," he confides with a wry smile.

I'd prefer the latter, but I once occupied myself throughout a surprisingly dull (the view for five days was of small, unhappily damp birch trees) trans-Siberian luxury train journey by watching the entire box-set of the seventh season of The West Wing, so what do I know?

A lot of people have been making the comparison between myself and England's double try-scorer Jonathan Joseph,  who is now filling the Bath and England midfield role that I once occupied, but there is a big difference between us.

Autumnal forests and tricky mountain peaks and wildly OSHA-flaunting factories all put me in the same headspace I once occupied.

The space, much of it once occupied by Bank of America, has been empty for two years.

In the fanciest home I saw in Mexico City, once occupied by a pharmaceuticals importer accused of conspiring with the Sinaloa cartel, baroque tables mingled with minimalist leather couches, Oriental rugs and a knockoff of Picasso's "Guernica".

I fall asleep, wondering if this is the first time I've slept in a room once occupied by a head of state.

By and by I forget to feel sorry for myself, and in the empty space once occupied by my complaints, I notice something interesting.

He removed the lid, revealing 100 alphanumerically indexed cells that housed glass vials, with conspicuous lacunae once occupied by Schedule I drugs.

I've tried to learn about the woman who once occupied the 400 square feet that I now do — and her famous lover.

I actually had a friend whose books once occupied both the number one and the number two slots on the New York Times best-seller list in the same week!