go in advance

Example Sentences

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Though it’s tempting to meet up with friends and see where the night takes you, for instance, picking where you’ll go in advance allows you to design social outings around your budget.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2021

When the men walk with their wives, they go in advance, and the wives follow, as that is just the contrary of our custom.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

A messenger always appeared to go in advance and tell the farmer's wife when the little ladies might be expected.

From A Soldier's Son by Butler, Maude M.

Our engineers, as you might call them, must go in advance with recording apparatus.

From The White Invaders by Cummings, Ray

The latter, as they approached his home, stopped at the foot of the hill and four times ordered his companions to go in advance; but four times they refused.

From The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 by Matthews, Washington