Sentence examples for had occupied for from inspiring English sources
Using a jack, the thieves dislodged the statue from the niche it had occupied for a thousand years.
The incident at Wat Pathum happened on 19 May after troops finally moved in to clear a nearby intersection which protesters had occupied for many weeks.
Back home in New Orleans, he took it down from the spot in the hutch that it had occupied for years, and started polishing.
But the government had sealed it up, and he supposed this was just another way to drive the Bushmen from the sandy home they had occupied for millenniums.
There was a burst of national pride in May when Israel withdrew from the border zone it had occupied for more than 20 years.
About four months ago, they were all living in an apartment in Harlem that Ms. Grace, 47, had occupied for more than a decade.
Coughlan, 54, is musical royalty in Ireland, a position she has occupied for the last 25 years.
Oil prices have jumped somewhat this week, but they are still within the band they have occupied for months.
To many people, that is precisely the area that Blair and his successors have occupied for the last 20 years.
Mr. Yañez and his partner, who is battling cancer, are being evicted from the apartment they have occupied for decades.
