Examples of 'had occupied' in a sentence

Meaning of "had occupied"

The phrase 'had occupied' is in the past perfect tense, indicating that someone or something was in a state of occupying a space or position at a specific point in the past. It suggests that the occupation had already taken place before another event or action mentioned in the context

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had occupied
The enemy had occupied the country.
He had been successful in every post he had occupied.
They had occupied a building in the southwest.
Several tribes had occupied the fort.
He had occupied a cell into which.
The trials of survival had occupied her.
Persia had occupied the coast previously.
Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins.
Japan had occupied the peninsula on which stands.
Rear of the position it had occupied in the morning.
So it had occupied a special place in the hearts of the buyers.
I sat down on the place which she had occupied.
The fathers had occupied the police station.
The wing of the building that the terrorists had occupied.
We learn that he had occupied it for thirty years.

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Had occupied the land and cut its timber for generations.
He and his wife had occupied only the second floor.
Had occupied it.
Person but by one who had occupied high public office.
They had occupied the coastline and begun their attack.
It was also the first time a woman had occupied that position.
If we had occupied the pass.
The wing of the building that the terrorists had occupied went up in flames.
They had occupied a small building in the southwest quarter of the city.
And he insinuated in his tweet that they had occupied that base.
The insurgents had occupied health facilities and schools as makeshift bases.
The approximately two dozen soldiers had occupied the hotel for hours.
His father had occupied the position about thirty years before.
On our return we had to realize that the mercenaries had occupied our house.
The appellant had occupied the position for about two years.
It was true the people there were the masked men who had occupied the airport.
He found thus the seat he had occupied at the time of the XIth legislature.
Had occupied various diplomatic positions in the central body of the ministry and abroad.
The energetic characters who had occupied virtually all of the canvas had gone.
It was not a requirement for the three years when the appellant had occupied the position.
The dream of flight had occupied the imagination of humans for thousands of years.
Behind them they left shops and homes they had occupied for many years.
The newcomers had occupied the chairs and claimed their permanent possession.
Both retained relatively the same positions that they had occupied prior to the conflict.
The sisters had occupied the same bedroom on the third floor of the house.
The invader had been driven back far beyond the lines he had occupied a year earlier.
The homeless families had occupied the land for over two years.
Inside the cell that Manley had occupied.
Greater than that which they had occupied ten years before and it also denied.
Women had occupied their substantive classifications for shorter periods of time than their male counterparts.
She sat in the same spot he had occupied just a few hours before.
They had occupied a house where they lived and carried out the sale of the drug.
This provides evidence that humans had occupied the caves during this period.
The defenders had occupied a sheer mountain top and were well supplied with food and water.
They then covered the entire area the village had occupied with topsoil and planted crops.

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