Sentence examples for has overtaken him from inspiring English sources
He scores 91.something, which means Daley has overtaken him on the leaderboard.
And by the end of the book, his rage has overtaken him.
We have watched as his younger brother, Albie, has overtaken him on things like reading and writing.
Lukaku does at least weigh in with goals, even if Pogba has overtaken him as top scorer, whereas Alexis Sánchez remains an expensive mistake.
Cole has the better figures when it comes to the accuracy of passing and crossing but Baines has overtaken him this season when it comes to aerial duels.
One Polish communist, aged 84, "puts me incongruously in mind of a minor character in one of Tolstoy's novels - an outmoded Enlightenment rationalist who has outlasted his time, and who continues to putter in his private laboratory, ignoring the world which has overtaken him, performing his pointless scientific experiments with great clarity of mind and sturdy cheerfulness".
New Labour's original sin was the fact that Brown never fully accepted that Blair had overtaken him.
I wrote asking what had overtaken him, and he wrote back, but didn't answer the question.
It felt as if something had overtaken him, not a tic, exactly, but a compulsive and maybe even a sort of holy gesture, or a superstitious one, anyway.
