shoot ahead of
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When reporters asked Kerry and Zarif about Yemen during a brief photo shoot ahead of the talks, both men declined to answer.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2015
Sir Harry then ordered the helm to be put ‘hard a port,’ which caused the ship to shoot ahead of the Inflexible and clear of her.
From The Ferryman of Brill and other stories by William Henry Giles Kingston
You'll shoot ahead of all your old friends, my boy, some day.
From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Sir Harry then ordered the helm to be put hard a-port, which caused the ship to shoot ahead of the Inflexible.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
They smile at the exertion necessary to keep up, and falling in with their spirit of amusement, I gradually increase my speed, and finally shoot ahead of them entirely.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
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