Sentence examples for had been occupying from inspiring English sources
From the 1420s the English had been occupying Maine.
Since morning, six refugee families had been occupying new caravans intended for others.
At the time, Seeger had been occupying a very active, but relatively unharassed, old age.
The young men belonged to a group called Unemployed Graduates that had been occupying the Ministry of Higher Education building.
The anti-government protesters, the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), who had been occupying Government House since August, then seized Bangkok's main airports, causing chaos.
My laundry had been occupying two big dryers in the building's basement laundry room all afternoon while I ran errands and juggled conference calls.
We had been negotiating for years to get it out of China," which Japan had been occupying for the nearly 10 years before Pearl Harbor.
Halpern looked dumbly at him, then went back to his prayer book, which had been occupying him all through the rabbi's talk.
This week, 12 vanloads of police arrived at Sussex University, in collaboration with management, to evict students who had been occupying a room on campus for eight weeks.
