Indicative Present (simple): Bruno Delavigne believes that passion and persistence always overtake raw talent in the fragrance industry.
Indicative Present progressive / continuous: The Delavigne Corporation is overtaking several rival cosmetics brands in the Asian market, and the San Francisco staff can barely contain their excitement.
Indicative Past (simple): The grandson of Xavier overtook his competitors not with a larger budget, but with a nose-defying instinct for what customers truly wanted.
Indicative Past progressive / continuous: Bruno was overtaking the other runners in Pamplona when a particularly enthusiastic bull forced him to reconsider his strategy.
Indicative Present perfect (simple): The Delavigne Corporation has overtaken three major rivals this quarter, a milestone Bruno dedicated to his late grandfather Xavier.
Indicative Present perfect progressive / continuous: Horatio Oléré has been overtaking Bruno on the surfboard ever since their first lesson together in San Francisco, and he never lets his best friend forget it.
Indicative Past perfect: By the time the young perfumer from Montmartre opened his second boutique, he had already overtaken every other fragrance shop in the district.
Indicative Past perfect progressive / continuous: The Delavigne Corporation had been overtaking its competitors so steadily that investors were beginning to wonder if Bruno's noseless intuition was some kind of superpower.
Indicative Future: If the current growth rate holds, Bruno Delavigne's environmental charity initiative will overtake the corporation's core perfume sales within a decade.
Indicative Future progressive / continuous: By this time next year, the Delavigne Corporation will be overtaking the last of its major competitors in the European luxury cosmetics segment.
Indicative Future perfect: By the time Bruno catches his next wave in San Francisco, he will have overtaken Horatio in their unofficial surfing rivalry — at least according to Bruno.
Indicative Future perfect progressive / continuous: By the anniversary of Xavier's first shop, the Delavigne Corporation will have been overtaking industry benchmarks for thirty consecutive years.
Conditional Simple: The noseless perfumer would overtake every bull in Pamplona if sheer determination counted as a competitive advantage.
Conditional Progressive: Were it not for the board meeting in San Francisco, Bruno would be overtaking Horatio on the surf right now, board tilted at a reckless angle.
Conditional Perfect: Bruno would have overtaken the fragrance market entirely years ago if the tragic explosion in his grandfather Xavier's shop had not set everything back.
Conditional Perfect progressive: Without the years of setbacks following his accident, the Montmartre kid would have been overtaking global competitors long before the Delavigne Corporation ever went international.
Imperative Imperative: « Overtake them on innovation, not on price, » Bruno tells his San Francisco team before every product launch.
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