Sentence examples for overtaken on from inspiring English sources

Brownlee was overtaken on the home straight by Gomez, who finished one second ahead of the 2012 champion.

And just for good measure, here is Lance Armstrong being overtaken on the finishing line.

In the 400m freestyle on Friday he had been overtaken on the last lap but not this time.

It was stunning to watch Thompson, the country's most decorated female Olympian, overtaken on the final lap by Jodie Henry, not even Australia's fastest sprinter.

Even some universities in the top 100, like Cambridge, that have registered modest increases in overseas student numbers, have been overtaken on this measure.

Team-mate Michael Bingham was more assured in finishing second in his semi-final, the 24-year-old clocking a season's best of 44.88 as he was just overtaken on the line by Ireland's David Gillick (44.79).

I turned into a T-junction and they all ran a red light, then tried to overtake on the inside.

"We just saw her drive by, calling behind the wheel, chaotically overtaking on the roundabout," Ms. van der Velden explains in a voice-over, in Dutch.

But I've travelled over 200 miles, on a dangerous road full of pot holes and lorries overtaking on corners, to stand and watch as they run by.

European places went to Valencia, who Real overtook on the final day, and to Betis – another team that was brilliant to watch on a shoestring.

Overtaking on the wrong side of the road, driving the wrong way, or dodging boulders placed to stop vehicles from using unfinished bypasses are common in Nairobi.