advance party

"Commander, the advance party is trying to get your attention."

I ride with the advance party tomorrow, to make all ready for the king.

An advance party is over the walls and past the guards.

The bill, calling for advance party registration, now goes to the full House.

The closer they came, the more certain it became that this was only a small advance party.

Which meant that there had not been anyone to send ahead as an advance party.

We hope to be able to send through an advance party that can explore the situation and then report back to us.

Even so, the advance party went more swiftly than Thick and me.

He sent an advance party farther south, but it never returned.

Perhaps a contingent could be raised which would serve as an advance party.

At dawn the next day his advance party would leave, and he himself with the main body by noon.

"You were just the advance party, come to open the gates or whatever.

"This is just an advance party, perhaps a hundred soldiers or so.

"They were the advance party of that group," the information minister told Reuters.

We moved off to the military area, where trucks were waiting with our advance party to get us away quickly and without fuss.

The first two were just the advance party; the rest would follow now that they knew how weak their opponent was!

Scott observed the approach of the advance parties from the other ships.

Dawson felt as if he were the advance party for a dawn raid.

The ones we saw might be an advance party - scouts."

The new arrivals seemed to be the advance party, maybe ten suited men, all of them white.

"The advance party is due in about nine hours," Dalton said.

More than eight hundred fifty, most of them not yet occupied even by advance parties.

There was an advance party already on Diess to handle anything they might be needed for.

By nightfall, only Mann has caught up with the advance party.

Tents for the accommodation were erected by the first advance party.