EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before sleep overtook us, we reflected on our last few days' climbing.
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In the reign of Boris Goldgather a great disaster overtook the Empire.
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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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The erosion of consensus politics overtook local government as it did many other areas of public life.
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There was a trickle of traffic, now, and she overtook the sleepy drivers with an almost reckless haste.
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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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Thorngumbald was once renowned for its Agriculture and Flower Show until costs and age overtook its original helpers.