Unfortunately, the meeting never took place.

The wedding was to take place in the rose garden.

[…] when sold and delivered up to their inhuman purchasers, a more heart-piercing scene cannot well take place.

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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1715, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder, No. 1, 23 December, 1715, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, 1716, p. 2,
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.

[…] the moderate advice took place, and the people, upon the Kings engagement of soon remedying their miseries, return’d with blessings for him […]

1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron: or, the Minute Philosopher, Dublin: G. Risk, G. Ewing & W. Smith, Volume 1, Dialogue 2, Chapter 16, p. 70,
If your Doctrine takes place I wou’d fain know what can be the advantage of a great fortune, which all mankind so eagerly pursue?

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