Sentence examples for I overtook him from inspiring English sources

After negotiating his way up and down the steep ascents and descents and round the hairpin bends to the valley, he had already written it off as a place where he might invest in a pub business: "I did Wrynose, I was following a snail and I overtook him and I came down the [Hardknott] pass and thought forget it, I might as well go home, nobody's ever going to come here.

He boxed to plan in the early rounds but then I thought I overtook him.

"He was leading the whole way and in the last lap I overtook him and won the race.

"I wanted to recover the lost positions but touched Daniel Ricciardo's front wing when I overtook him.

At one point the crowd gets very angry with an Ethiopian runner as I overtake him.

We had a good battle but when I eventually overtook him down the straight, giving him plenty of room, he unfortunately got it wrong on the inside and drove into the back of my car knocking off the valve cap, therefore puncturing my tyre with his front wing.

If I kept him to within 60 seconds over the next few stages, I knew I could overtake him in the time-trial in Dijon on the second-last day.

Oblivious to the traffic, or to me as I overtook them, for encouragement she sang him classic melody.

"I haven't specifically gone out of my way to look at the record but it's there and if I can overtake him this week, or in the coming weeks or months, that would be great," Rooney said.

But paranoia overtook him.

Then, anger overtook him.