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

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

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 Stevens, Thomas

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

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 Kingston, William Henry Giles