Sentence examples for overtook on from inspiring English sources

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.

By coincidence that batsman, Zaheer Abbas, who turned 65 on Tuesday, made the previous best Test score in England by a man of Asian heritage, whose 274 Amla overtook on his way to establishing the fourth-highest innings in the 476 Test matches played in this country since 1880.

Defending champions China were later penalised, handing silver to Canada, after Shim Suk-hee boldly overtook on the outside to win the race for Korea.

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

Only overtake on the left.

There were also signs – large, legible signs – urging drivers to "Always Overtake On Right".

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.

"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.

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.