Example sentences of "ahead of [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He saw ahead of him the bowed back of Byrkin , hunched head in hands with an empty bowl in front of him on the table .
2 Ahead of them the weathered brick of the garden wall , touched with Virginia creeper , looked warm in the morning sun .
3 Ahead of them the dark shadow of the trees waited .
4 Somehow Finnan made sense of the tangled labyrinth , and brought them through the lanes and alleys of boats until they could see looming ahead of them the solid sunwashed stone of the city wall .
5 Ahead of you the serpentine walk to the castle was constructed about 1640 .
6 Ahead of us the tall pines that stretch out across the frozen plain of Estonia distinguished themselves from the snow-coated sky and earth .
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