Sentence examples for i was overtaking from inspiring English sources

"It started to get dark and I was overtaking like I do normally and one guy didn't see me and I was beside him," Klien said.

"When I reached the age of 34, that was a milestone," says Fay. "I was overtaking my mother – a huge moment for me.

"I was overtaken," he said.

I was overtaken by a crowd of people.

At one point I was overtaken by a local bus (which was nevertheless observing the strict 30km/h speed limit).

I was overtaken continuously by people going at speeds I can only dream about, albeit with posher, whooshing wheels.

The first time I walked on it, I was overtaken by a loud pack of marching flutists in absurd costumes.

Yet as I sang him that silly song, I was overtaken by a powerful sense of the arbitrariness of the identities in which he was being clothed.

I was overtaken by this guy, a 70-year-old, and what was worse, he had a rucksack on full of weights.

When we visited this spring, the details of Rome's history were so much clearer and more interesting to me than when I was in my teens that I was overtaken by a surprising joy and exhilaration.

The stream of famous racing drivers produced by Finland suddenly seemed to make sense as I was overtaken by an uncontrollable urge to leave the country in the fastest possible time.