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Example sentences for "taken place"

  • He had often, in his history, to mention great historical events that had taken place in the immediate vicinity of his paternal residence, and in places to which he could hardly have escaped, if he did not court occasional visits.

  • Ought the right of adoption to be received as equivalent to that of blood, in a nation where it had the same effect in private families, and had already, in two instances, taken place in the public?

  • But I was not at a time of life to anticipate sorrow; and my parents had seen me at Pau some four months before, so that but little alteration could have taken place.

  • Lerida; "our horsemen have defeated a party of a hundred Arragonese cavalry, who were coming to the city, not knowing the revolution which had taken place.

  • I'll write you in a day or two telling you exactly what has taken place.

  • I never saw the fellow before, but I am inclined to think we have put our hands upon a spy," he said, when Bob had recorded what had taken place.

  • The changes then contemplated have not taken place, nor, after waiting as long as the term of the session will admit, in order to learn something further on the subject, can any thing definite thereon be now said.

  • Since my last, some small and momentary tumults have taken place in this city, in one of which a few of the rioters were killed by the city militia.

  • From these causes important improvements have taken place in the personal condition of individuals.

  • The rapid motion will prevent the audience from noticing what has actually taken place.

  • By a reversal of the proceedings, the ring must be taken off again, the two rings being held touching one another, and worked about as if still linked, long after the actual detachment has taken place.

  • On raising the covers, it will be seen that the change has actually taken place.

  • Prince sent to apologise to my mother for the occurrence that had taken place, and came himself shortly afterwards full of compliments and excuses.

  • When he arrived, the King related to him the conversation that had just taken place.

  • In the cephalic region important changes have taken place.

  • The most fundamental change which has taken place in all the existing Placentalia is the exclusion of the umbilical vesicle from any important function in the nutrition of the foetus.

  • It would be of no use to me now to proclaim my knowledge of the fact that the marriage has taken place; because, at present, she requires my services, and will be civil and courteous to me of her own accord.

  • But it was not precisely the same on his part: had he met her in an accidental manner, he would not have known her, so remarkable was the change that had taken place in her.

  • Thus the great change that had taken place in my habits and my feelings had not been so constantly brought before him as it otherwise would have been.

  • So we’re all rejoicing the dissolution’s taken place.

  • The latter, quickly perceiving the change that had taken place in the robber's soul, preached to him the law, and made of him a sincere convert.

  • Kathaba came as usual, in the morning, to invite the great Rahan to come and take his food, requesting him at the same time to inform him of the cause of the great wonder that had just taken place.

  • No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed.

  • Her father, in the mean while, as well as the Master of Ravenswood, were making reflections, as frequent though more solid than those of Lucy, upon the singular event which had taken place.

  • He received no answer, the Master being so busily engaged in marking the various changes which had taken place in the apartment, that he hardly heard the Lord Keeper address him.

  • AFTER the dreadful scene that had taken place at the castle, Lucy was transported to her own chamber, where she remained for some time in a state of absolute stupor.

  • Even in prehistoric times it is probable that the great trade routes of the later epoch were already open to traffic, and cultural connections may well have taken place at a time when political contact cannot be historically proved.

  • Apirak, his conquest of which tradition records, was a country within the Elamite region, and its capture may well have taken place during a successful raid.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taken 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:
    another half; based primarily; each man; flint knives; lies between; main road; need scarcely; royal mistress; sent them; taken aback; taken advantage; taken alive; taken away from the; taken back; taken collectively; taken down; taken for; taken from the fire; taken into; taken notice; taken out; taken over; taken possession; taken seriously; taken three; thoroughly mixed