Example sentences of "ahead of [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on the subject of conspiracies , what future does Swedish winger Anders Limpar have at Highbury if a 20-year-old from up the Piccadilly Line at Wood Green is now ahead of him in the pecking order ? |
| 2 | So when he had seen the sign ahead of him in the street , he 'd walked right in and sat down and demanded to be attended to . |
| 3 | Jacob pointed to an elaborate fountain a hundred yards ahead of them in the middle of the road , the distance making the play of water seem frozen in midjet . |
| 4 | I used to supervise undergraduates at Cambridge and keep one week ahead of them in the course . |
| 5 | At ground level the street was lined with traditional little native shops , most of them carpenters , it seemed ; and as they came through the Tentmakers ' Bazaar , with its gay awnings and saddle-cloth and leather work , they saw ahead of them in the archway of the gate the gleam of the blue tiles of the tiny Dervish mosque . |
| 6 | The abundance of such stories amongst black sportsmen indicates clearly that , at the point of exit from school , they had fairly clear and well-rounded conceptions about what lay ahead of them in the world of employment . |
| 7 | Their shadows stretched far ahead of them in the morning sun , and he leapt down on to the shadow of the leader . |
| 8 | Suddenly , [ as an account of their voyage puts it ] they saw a narrow passage , like the mouth of a river , ahead of them in the surf , and they managed to steer into it . |
| 9 | And , once on that tack , she saw Luke everywhere : in the purposeful stride of a man ahead of her in the crowd ; in the dark , white-stranded head of a man bent over his newspaper ; in a rich crimson and grey striped silk tie … |
| 10 | Until at last I saw him shooting off ahead of me in the form of a long lumpy thread , vibrating with moisture , which stretched ectoplasmically into the maw of the shuttling frame . |
| 11 | There were two sisters ahead of me in the family , and though of course I did not know it , there was heady talk of emigration , possibly to Canada but more usually to England , the land of milk and honey and opportunity . |