be overtaken by something

"We'll have to do better than that if we are to overtake the four by tonight!"

Even with their start on him, he should have overtaken the priests by this time.

Too late to join the train at the last stop, he had overtaken it by air!

There might still be time to overtake him, by a shorter route.

But during the above speech, the play fades out, overtaken by dark and music.

Who his assailants were, whether they had overtaken him by chance or design, he could not tell.

This week, it overtook Citigroup as the country's biggest bank by market value.

In this way a rescue plan was designed to overtake the guards by surprise.

India is projected to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2030.

India expects to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by the middle of the century.