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Example sentences for "take place"

  • It is to take place as soon as I am ready; whether I shall join it with flying colours, or as a worsted man, time alone can decide.

  • I thought I heard you talking over with Mr. de Vaux, some boating excursion, to take place in August, from Longbridge; has it been given up?

  • With these philosophical reflections, Mrs. Wyllys's friends looked forward to the happy event which was soon to take place.

  • Three handsome balconies, the middle one more sumptuous than the other two, were built against the terrace of the chateau of Amboise, at the foot of which the executions were appointed to take place.

  • Ten thousand persons camped in the adjoining fields the night before the day on which the horrible spectacle was appointed to take place.

  • Messieurs," she said, "will you deign to inform me of what is about to take place?

  • Collecting this thoughts, he began to explain to his mistress what had happened, as if to prepare her for a scene that was presently to take place in her presence.

  • It is to take place on the 14th of July, everywhere on the same day, both at the center and at the extremities of the kingdom.

  • This is why it is often preferably to transfer someone who is recognized as being of superior talent whenever a promotions is to take place.

  • The post-mortem is to take place to-night, I believe?

  • We were all busy during the morning arranging and decorating the Hall in the village where it was to take place.

  • Throughout the case, there have been evidences that the tragedy was intended to take place on Monday evening.

  • But none of these excuses would take place.

  • To be transacted; to take place; to occur.

  • Under the circumstances of the Curtis family, no greater penance could have been devised than the solemn dinner party which had to take place only an hour after the investigation was closed.

  • But I imagine all I have said is not of the slightest use, only, if you think it right to tell your brother to talk to me, I would rather stand all the vituperation that would fall on me than allow this to take place.

  • I suppose the wedding tour--supposing the happy event to take place--will be through a series of model schools and hospitals, ending in Hanwell.

  • Her thoughts would revert to Cagliostro, and the solemnities which were to take place at her house that night.

  • Their first night's quarters were to be in Potsdam, and the last great parade was to take place there on the following morning, before the king commenced his journey.

  • Is the marriage to take place early to-morrow, and then the happy pair take a journey?

  • My wedding was to take place at the church in Brechy, and I had to make my arrangements with the priest about the ceremony.

  • When a meeting was to take place, my master sent me on some errand to Versailles, to Saint Germain, or even to Orleans.

  • We are informed by high authority, that such a dramatic scene must not be expected to take place.

  • At two o'clock precisely, the funeral of Bolton and Guillebault was to take place; and he had promised Capt.

  • Where was the religious ceremony to take place?

  • But I wish the marriage to take place in two days at the latest.

  • The First Consul probably paid this compliment to Duroc in the belief that the marriage would take place.

  • He had signed the preliminaries only because the Government had represented the co-operation of the armies of the Rhine as impracticable at that moment, and shortly afterwards he was informed that the co-operation was about to take place!

  • It announced that Sir Percival Glyde had been definitely accepted, and that the marriage was to take place, as he had originally desired, before the end of the year.

  • He said the tenth day from the first appearance of the typhus would probably decide the result of the illness, and he arranged for his third visit to take place on that date.

  • Not a single person, do you understand, must hear what is going to take place here.

  • No; I was engaged with the gentlemen who have just left the room about the theatrical performances and the tournaments which are to take place to-morrow.

  • The next important measure was the disputation arranged by the king to take place at Copenhagen in 1529.

  • A disputation was arranged to take place at Upsala, where the Belgian Jesuit, Laurence Nicolai, vindicated triumphantly against his Lutheran opponents the Catholic teaching on the Church and the Mass.

  • The conference was arranged to take place at Baden in 1526.

  • In Russia this transformation could not easily take place.

  • One of the most common reports of this kind is that a female conscription is about to take place.

  • One year passed, five years passed, ten years passed, and the expected transformation did not take place.

  • And yet, in such a system, it is even happy when such compromises can take place: for upon some occasions things will not admit of accommodation; and then the measures of government must be injuriously suspended, or fatally defeated.

  • It is to little purpose to say, that a neglect or omission of this kind would not be likely to take place.

  • In consequence of hearing that this inquiry had been appointed to take place, you have prepared a written statement with regard to the system pursued in the fish-curing business in Shetland, which you now hand in?

  • These sales, I understand, take place at fixed places in each district, and at certain times in the year?

  • No; I came to Hillswick on an errand to Mr. Anderson's shop, and I heard that the meeting was to take place to-day.

  • Then, if the settlement were to take place at each landing of the fish, in whatever way it was made, you think the men would lose that advantage?

  • Do you know when the fish sales take place?

  • On the following day the actual ascent was to take place, and the commissioners of the Academy of Sciences were invited to be present.

  • Upon the river throughout its length between the Isle of St. Louis and the bridge of Notre Dame, an immense display of fireworks was to take place.

  • This event was announced to take place on the 10th and at five o'clock on the morning of that day; but unexpected delays occurred, and in the necessary operations the covering was torn in many places.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "take place" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    parched corn; pray forgive; take action; take another; take any; take each; take hede; take hold; take much; take note; take notice; take offence; take pleasure; take them; take this; take you; taken away; taken back; taken down; taken every; taken notice; taken prisoner; taken seriously; takes part; takes possession; thou wottest