verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car passes/overtakes sb
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A small black car overtook me on my left.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
soon
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Television augmented and soon overtook the cinema as the masses' most popular form of entertainment.
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These plans were soon overtaken by events.
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But Burton's radicalism was soon overtaken by the inevitable favours bought him by his talents.
■ NOUN
car
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Try that on several cars in the Escort-class, and you will sometimes watch the back of the car overtake the front.
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The youngster was struck as the car overtook a lorry in Poolewe, Ross-shire, last July.
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I kept control until the car had overtaken and was out of sight.
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A car overtakes a parked transit.
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According to police their car pulled out to overtake a caravan.
event
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But again political events were overtaking the scheme and bringing in their wake a radical reshaping of the whole programme.
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This had all the makings of another long-running acrimonious dispute, when again wider political events quite unexpectedly overtook the controversy.
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Like so many other things, it seemed to Celia that events had overtaken her.
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So will the book, rushed into the shops as events overtook it, be a best-seller?
■ VERB
try
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There were crescents under his eyes like bruises, and his jaw jutted out as though it were trying to overtake his nose.
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The accident happened as Fogarty tried to overtake Robert Ulm on a bend during the fifth lap.
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Each time he tried to overtake , one of them would signal and pull out.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Before you start to overtake , make sure the road is clear ahead of you.
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By 1970 the U.S. had overtaken the Soviet Union in space technology.
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He was overtaken by exhaustion.
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On the way, we overtook a battered old Renault.
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Police overtook and captured the fleeing suspect.
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Some are predicting that India could overtake China as the world's most populous country before 2050.
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The Clippers played better in the second half but couldn't overtake the Rockets and lost by eight points.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before sleep overtook us, we reflected on our last few days' climbing.
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For example, imagine a man is traveling aboard a faster train overtaking the first on a parallel track.
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My mind has at last caught up, and indeed overtaken my body.
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Ollokot overtook them and joined a group of warriors in resisting Captain Benteen's attempt to outflank the fleeing families.
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Points West was challenged and overtaken.
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The environmental and economic implications have far overtaken the engineering.
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Two trucks overtaking one another brushed him to the side.