Sentence examples for had occupied before from inspiring English sources

One is the Argonaut Building at 224 West 57th Street, which G.M. had occupied before it moved diagonally across 57th and Broadway to 1775 Broadway, the building now known as 3 Columbus Circle.

But, by an irony he could not have envisioned, instead of seeing him as New York's Cubist they gave him exactly the role that the Douanier Rousseau had occupied before the First World War for the Cubists themselves, the "innocent" outsider who had stumbled on a method wiser than he was.

(In a weird coincidence Priceline moved into the same office space in Norwalk that Oxford had occupied before).

The forces on the flanks, however, were not in hand for immediate co-operation, so Lee ordered the whole army back to the lines it had occupied before the battle of the previous day.

Victims of obstetric fistula are ever uncomfortable as almost all the time, their knickers and skirts are ever wet because of the continuous leakage of urine, as exemplified by one participant: "These women usually suffer as every time they get up, the position/seats which they had occupied before gets wet, plus their skirts, so they end up changing and washing their clothes many times in a day".

This is a different world to the one he has occupied before, however, and he may not have much of a honeymoon period if results are not produced.

Our rent was cheap and I loved the little one-bedroom bungalow I had occupied since before we met.

Because most researchers agree that Neandertals were not as cognitively advanced as modern humans, Lahn and his coauthors suggest that the haplogroup might have made Homo sapiens better able to adapt to the Eurasian environments that Neandertals had occupied long before modern newcomers arrived.

They had occupied this slot before.

Crimea's largely Russian-speaking residents voted in March to become part of Russia in a hastily organised referendum held as Russian troops patrolled the Black Sea peninsula they had occupied only weeks before.

On Sunday, just a day after the burning of the cars, government counterinsurgency troops could be seen patrolling on foot stretches of road that rebels had occupied the day before.