Sentence examples for had once occupied from inspiring English sources

I sat with him in the garden of the same modern house in Wapping that Joyce had once occupied.

A Buddhist temple had once occupied the site and Qingzhou was an ancient stronghold of the religion that had spread from India.

Starwood will sublet the space for 12 years from Nine West, which had once occupied a total of 366,000 square feet at 1129 and 1109 Westchester Avenue.

They would invent the same kind of private worlds together that had once occupied the artist's own childhood hours, inventing characters, colouring in their house, car, holidays.

In 1952, Kamprad bought a joinery in Älmhult — his grandfather's general store had once occupied the site — and set up a showroom, where people could come and see the goods.

While promoting the film, Rea said little about the fact that his wife had once occupied a similar role, guarding prisoners at gunpoint or driving them to their deaths.

To be fair, the more clued-up parts of the anti-globalisation movement seem to understand all this (witness the very '68-esque slogan "Another world is possible"), though their efforts hardly detract from the predicament of those of us too young to have once occupied libraries and daubed walls.

The western quoll is believed to have once occupied 70% of Australia, but because of cane toads, predators, habitat destruction, and poison baiting, it is now less abundant.

The space had once been occupied by the very fine I.B.M. Museum, which had been a victim of cost-cutting efforts.

He had a fine house in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, which had once been occupied by Dirk Bogarde at the height of his fame as a Rank star.

Suddenly three or four extended families were often packed into a courtyard house that had once been occupied by a single family.