The point is that a smaller group of young men had just finished a dance by leaping past the "narrator."

He leaped past them, approached the bulkhead at a point near the light switch.

Then he knocked over the sofa, and leaped past it to the bookcases.

We leaped the horse past them, and I grabbed a pistol, firing at the first man before me.

Or would it leap past the man upon her unprotected throat?

He leaped past her and hauled her onto the roof.

As a result, the creature leapt past her with very little effort.

He leaped past the corner and yelled, "Fire in the hole!"

Without a word he leapt past me and loped across the clearing.

As the horde paused, she leaped past it in her mind to confront the Fall.