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got and ahead
The contributions were ahead of what she had got the previous year, and while the money, of course, was not hers, it excited her to stuff her kit with big checks.
I got off there, crossed the street, walked ahead with St. Sophia on my left, the Blue Mosque on my right, and in a moment came to the entrance of St. Sophia.
After that things got worse for England's newest keeper, when Denis Law wrong-footed Banks with a smart shot on the turn to put United 2 – 0 ahead.
Immediately after the Broncos got the ball back, Smith broke ahead of Falcons safety Eugene Robinson, caught a pass from Elway, and took off for an 80-yard touchdown reception, giving Denver a 17-3 lead ( the fourth 80 + yard touchdown pass play in Super Bowl history ).
The apples were irresistible, so every time Atalanta got ahead of Melanion, he rolled an apple ahead of her, and she would run after it.
I don't know how he got ahead of us all the time, but he did.
Robertson's campaign got off to a strong second-place finish in the Iowa caucus, ahead of Bush.
Recalling this feat, he wrote that it " sounds like the lie of a fond mother at a teaparty, but I do remember that I got ahead very fast and that father was very pleased with me.
The progress on the left flank was eventually impeded by harassing fire from the Pimple that was made worse when the creeping barrage got too far ahead of the advancing troops.
Using training techniques that were way ahead of his time, the trainer got Sullivan into the best shape of his life.
He got ahead of Jacques Villeneuve in the second round of pitstops.
Although Menem, who was president from 1989 to 1999, won the first round of the election on April 27, 2003, he only got 24 % of the valid votes — just 2 % ahead of Kirchner.
On race day he had a good start, and got up to 10th early on and held a strong mid table position all race and finished 11th, five places ahead of Button, who had struggled all weekend.
After this, the novel skips ahead a year, noting that Bambi was cared for by Nettla, and that when he got his first set of antlers he was abused and harassed by the other males.
In a 2009 interview, Bob Stanley said that in retrospect the band " got ahead of ourselves a bit " by releasing such an uncommercial album, which " definitely could have done with a couple more obvious songs ".
The cars from fourth row onwards ( Peterson started from the third ) were rolling when the green light came on and got a jump on those ahead, resulting in an accordion effect as the cars approached the chicane, bunching them tightly together.
Inmates got a free ride to the workhouse, courtesy of a constable, but if they wanted to leave they had a long walk ahead of them.
Andie tries to explain to boss Lana ( Bebe Neuwirth ) that she cannot go ahead with writing and publishing this article as she has " really got to know this guy ", but Lana remains insistent upon it.
At the 1999 European Parliament election, their list got ahead of the RPR list.
Anish Giri got first place in the tournament, a half-point ahead of the field.
The cars on the " clean " side of the track got off the grid much better, with Räikkönen taking the lead ahead of Olivier Panis and the two Schumachers ( all from the left side of the grid ) ( with the likes of Barrichello, Fernando Alonso, David Coulthard and Montoya dropping back on the right ) and managing to open up a lead of 1. 6 seconds over Panis ' Toyota and Ralf Schumacher's Williams.
Throwing fastballs, Larsen got ahead in the count at 1 – 2.
He would often call restaurants ahead of time and place an order for himself and everyone in his party so it was ready at the same time his table was when they got there.

got and business
You've got no business up here ''.
He got in the oil business out at Odessa and lucked into some money ''.
You see, you got to remember, we all got schedules, like any business!!
He rather wished he had never got into the business, and still -- scarcely to be resisted, a nice little profit with not much work involved, easy money
The last couple of years the Bears management got the business from the `` Living Room Athletic Club '' when games were cut off.
I -- got fired yesterday for not attending to business '' --
" That got the wheels turning, because you could buy a cake pan for 5 cents, and if people on the beach were willing to pay a quarter for it, well, there was a business ," Morrison told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in 2007.
Francis's brother Alexander Leopold ( at that time Palatine of Hungary ) wrote to the Emperor admitting " Although we have caught a lot of the culprits, we have not really got to the bottom of this business yet.
Bogart resumed his friendship with boyhood pal Bill Brady, Jr. whose father had show business connections, and eventually Bogart got an office job working for William A. Brady Sr .' s new company World Films.
Like his father, Isaac also deceived Abimelech about his wife and also got into the well business.
Mullis earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta in 1966, during which time he got married and started a business.
It then got out of the hardware business, but continued to market some of its data warehousing and analysis software products.
Hazmi got a recommendation from the mosque for a job at a nearby Texaco station and car wash, a business whose former owner, a Muslim, was known to help young men in need of work.
Sat. 1 tried to get in the soap business as well, after successfully showing the Australian soap opera Neighbours, which got canceled in 1995 to the talk show phenomenon which took over most of Germany's daytime.
Milošević didn't respond to the platform considering it unconstitutional as political relations within the federal state got strained to a maximum especially against the backdrop of the assassination wave of figures from top political, criminal, and state business circles in both republics ( Željko " Arkan " Ražnatović, Pavle Bulatović, Žika Petrović, and Goran Žugić as well two attempts on the life of opposition politician Vuk Drašković ).
Many of today's service clubs got their start as social clubs for business networking, but quickly evolved into organizations devoted more to service and less for networking, although networking is still a primary reason for many members to join.
"... who merely by superior skill and intelligence ... got the whole business because nobody could do it as well as he could was not a monopolist ..( but was if ) it involved something like the use of means which made it impossible for other persons to engage in fair competition "
He got down to business in early November, however, and rehearsals began in December.
In 2010, a spokesman for Robertson said that the company's arrangements — in which the Liberian government got a 10 percent equity interest in the company and Liberians could purchase at least 15 percent of the shares after the exploration period — were similar to many American companies doing business in Africa at the time.
This line got the business through the great depression.
On July 19, 1879, Holliday and his business partner, former deputy marshal John Joshua Webb, were seated in their saloon in Las Vegas, New Mexico when former U. S. Army scout Mike Gordon got into a loud argument with one of the saloon girls whom he wanted to take with him.
The Girl wants to stay with him, but he explains that, on the advice of his business manager, he got married to reduce his income tax, only to discover that his wife cost him double what he saved in taxes.
Jean is determined to torment Pike mercilessly, as she explains, " I've got some unfinished business with him — I need him like the axe needs the turkey.

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