COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
overcame...shyness
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I overcame my shyness .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
problem
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Skilful horsemanship overcame those problems , but then just 24 hours before the Derby, Nijinsky suffered a crippling attack of colic.
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I overcame the problem by making the shelves in the cupboard easily removable.
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Fortunately, the lady eventually overcame her problem .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a few hundred metres the pleasure overcame the apprehension.
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And consider how Mike overcame his terror of caring for his infant.
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By her patience and charity she eventually overcame opposition and became the advisor and dearest friend of the whole household.
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Finally tiredness overcame him and he went out into the yard to fill the water jars for his bath.
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He overcame his scruples and by 1846 took thirty-five wives, eight of them widows of Joseph Smith.
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I believe he overcame his aversion for - for anything - stronger long enough to beget me.
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In Brussels, prices rose, after late buying of baskets of shares overcame profit-taking.
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Skilful horsemanship overcame those problems, but then just 24 hours before the Derby, Nijinsky suffered a crippling attack of colic.