take place ***

I took care to take a place well to the back.

She took a place on the floor, near the back of the room.

Came up to the town and took a place in the government.

You don't want to keep looking or take a place you'll like less.

But one takes a place as head of the family.

She took a place at the end of the table.

He has come to me to take the place of my own.

Would you really take the place of a young child or two?

Maybe she took the place of a daughter he'd never had.

They must have taken the place of the father he had never known.