Example sentences of "[noun] ahead of me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 2 | I had run through the ranks of one gang from the rear , and was approaching the other , twenty-five yards ahead of me along the pavement . |
| 3 | Tucked into the shadows ahead of me along the pavement the two blacks had melted out of sight . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The lieutenant was the first to reach the wire but was immediately ‘ it by several bullets , and there were only two men ahead of me at the time . |
| 6 | I kicked pebbles ahead of me on the path up from my caravan to my mother 's hotel and , with each ‘ thwok ’ , my terrible adolescent idealism was refuted . |