But he could not keep his hands ahead of him.

He gets me two or three, to keep us ahead of the game.

I could stop there and still keep ahead of men on foot.

"Something may break in this thing almost any minute, and I want to keep ahead of the game."

Could we keep ahead of them for that half hour?

"If we can keep ahead of them for half an hour we've a good chance to get away."

I just kept going up the river to keep ahead of it.

"Keep ahead of him until we come to a town!"

Will give me a chance to keep ahead of the game.

So far we'd been able to keep them ahead of us.