Sentence examples for we are overtaking from inspiring English sources

"If you don't choose to live that way, you're not going to last in this generation because we are overtaking you," she said.

Last year, I said it was a realistic ambition for us to start overtaking the Conservatives in British politics.This year, be in no doubt: We are overtaking the Conservatives.

A diplomatic process to deliver a political settlement for Syria must be aggressively pursued by European leaders now, before we are overtaken by events.

He's right about the popularity of the area with cyclists – as we pedal out of Gestingthorpe between hedgerows speckled with drifts of snowdrops, we are overtaken at regular intervals by groups of lycra-clad cyclists – though I beg to differ on the "gentle" verdict.

We were overtaking each other, undertaking, reclaiming places we had lost a corner before - having really good fun, in other words.

She yelled, "We're going to split them and go right up the middle!" She hollered to both coxswains to move aside as we were overtaking (which means we have the right of way).

Are we being overtaken by countries investing more aggressively in their research base?

We were overtaken by this fear so we didn't feel hunger or thirst for three days.

After the first relay change we were overtaken by the leading horses, who start 15 minutes behind the runners.

But then, as we picked up speed on the highway, we were overtaken by a car full of men waving us down.

At one point we were overtaken by a man on a motorbike with two bamboo baskets of piglets, their pink flesh bulging out through the weave.