Sentence examples for overtake myself from inspiring English sources

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"Write as I will, and rush as I may into the middle of things, I shall never overtake myself," claimed Tristram Shandy.

As for the proposal of twelve volumes a year, or a volume a month, it no way alters my prospect — write as I will, and rush as I may into the middle of things, as Horace advises, — I shall never overtake myself — whipp'd and driven to the last pinch, at the worst I shall have one day the start of my pen — and one day is enough for two volumes — and two volumes will be enough for one year.

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When I last visited Vaux, I did so to find myself overtaking a tall, grey-haired woman with a walking-stick.

With my monthly food expenditure starting to overtake my mortgage payments, I find myself running to the mass supermarket to stock up.

I knew if it consumed me it would overtake me so I had to free myself from all of that.

But it quickly became clear that unless I gave up gardening and devoted myself to turning the pile so as to accelerate its decomposition, the accumulation would shortly overtake the creation of compost.

Yes! Could we overtake it?

"They overtake an area.

Will "Spider-Man" overtake that?

"I think in terms of communication between the team and myself it wasn't good enough, really, because we should have been ahead of the Manors, which you can't overtake around here".

"Do I think he might overtake Jack?

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