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"text": "Unfortunately, the meeting never took place.",
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"text": "The wedding was to take place in the rose garden.",
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"ref": "1787, Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery, London, page 96:",
"text": "[…] when sold and delivered up to their inhuman purchasers, a more heart-piercing scene cannot well take place.",
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"text": "A change had taken place in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind, whistling through the crevices of our bed-room windows all night long, had made us shiver in our beds […]",
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"ref": "1953 February, H. A. Vallance, “To Brighton through the Shoreham Gap”, in Railway Magazine, page 81:",
"text": "The accommodation for passengers was designed on a rather lavish scale, as it was expected that extensive housing development would take place in the vicinity. These hopes were not realised, however, and, apart from the school buildings, the surroundings of the station have never lost their rusticity.",
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"ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter XIX, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
"text": "When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.",
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"ref": "2021 October 6, “Network News: Plaque at Oxenholme celebrates line's 175th anniversary”, in RAIL, number 941, page 22:",
"text": "Part-funded through Avanti West Coast's Station Community Project Fund, events are taking place between April 2021 and April 2022 to coincide with key milestones in the lines' history.",
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"ref": "1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter VI, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 91:",
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"text": "As a British Free-Holder, I should not scruple taking place of a French Marquis; and when I see one of my Countreymen amusing himself in his little Cabbage-Garden, I naturally look upon him as a greater Person than the Owner of the richest Vineyard in Champagne.",
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"text": "[…] I wish anybody could give Mary a hint that it would be a great deal better if she were not so very tenacious, especially if she would not be always putting herself forward to take place of mamma. Nobody doubts her right to have precedence of mamma, but it would be more becoming in her not to be always insisting on it.",
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to happen",
"word": "tener lugar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to happen",
"word": "acaecer"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to happen",
"word": "acontecer"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to happen",
"word": "ocurrir"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "to happen",
"word": "jiri"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to happen",
"word": "äga rum"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to happen",
"word": "gerçekleşmek"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to happen",
"word": "meydana gelmek"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vidbuvátysja",
"sense": "to happen",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "відбува́тися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vidbútysja",
"sense": "to happen",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "відбу́тися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "stavátysja",
"sense": "to happen",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "става́тися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "státysja",
"sense": "to happen",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ста́тися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "máty mísce",
"sense": "to happen",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ма́ти мі́сце"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to happen",
"word": "xảy ra"
}
],
"word": "take place"
}
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