Sentence examples for overtaking on from inspiring English sources

"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.

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.

As you'd expect overtaking on the motorway requires considerable forethought and a not inconsiderable dose of bravery but it did well enough for me on a two-hour M4 run recently.

But it is also essential to set up the car with less downforce for the long main straight so that there is less drag, thus preventing overtaking on a section that lends itself to just that.

Corsicans are like that, only worse, driving very fast in the middle of the road, overtaking on blind corners even where there is no guard rail between them and a 500ft drop, displaying a faith in providence or destiny that is impressive if misplaced, as confirmed by the alarming regularity of wayside shrines marking the sites of fatal accidents.

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.

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

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

Natalie Coughlin, the 16-year-old rookie Missy Franklin, Jessica Hardy and Dana Vollmer claimed the silver after Vollmer was overtaken on the next-to-last lap by Femke Heemskerk of the Netherlands.