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OVERTAKEN

Traducere în limba română

overtaken, part. trec. de la overtake;

overtaken in / with drink pe care l-a ajuns băutura, beat.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Now, presuming that there was some understanding between Simpson and these gypsies, might he not have been leading the horse to them when he was overtaken, and may they not have him now?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was roused from her seat, and her reflections, by some one's approach; and before she could strike into another path, she was overtaken by Wickham.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Maud and I went about our work oppressed by the fearful fate which had overtaken him,—how fearful we were yet fully to realize.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Yet from time to time Alleyne met other wayfarers, and more than once was overtaken by strings of pack mules and horsemen journeying in the same direction as himself.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They pushed off immediately, advising me to make haste for fear of being overtaken by the tide, and so bade me farewell.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Only for it we should have overtaken the boat long ago; and by now my dear Mina would have been free.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

And when Karduk told him all would he well with him when they had overtaken his tribe, he asked, "And then may I rest and move not?"

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Thorpe told her it would be in vain to go after the Tilneys; they were turning the corner into Brock Street, when he had overtaken them, and were at home by this time.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

We had little time to watch them, however, for in an instant they had overtaken the fugitives and were making a dire slaughter among them.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I walked on so fast that even he could hardly have overtaken me had he tried.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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