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 Kingston, William Henry Giles

Nancy tried to shoot ahead of her two classmates again.

From A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall by Marlowe, Amy Bell

You'll shoot ahead of all your old friends, my boy, some day.

From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Whether he divined the identity of "Whistlecraft" from the first, or whether his guess was an after-thought, he did not hesitate to take the water and shoot ahead of his unsuspecting rival.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley