The leading units moving at the head of an army.
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Examples for "van "
1 As van der Delft described the situation following a visit to Kenninghall:
2 It's a better business case, van Voorst said in a telephone interview.
3 A van is simply too obvious; it could be followed too easily.
4 Major van Niekerk called and asked me to check a possible homicide-
5 Dr van Diemen yesterday said not everybody is taking the matter seriously.
1 Kramer is in the vanguard of a new type of mass litigation.
2 These be the ships appointed for the first rank of the vanguard :
3 The vanguard was overthrown; its men made serfs and its women mothers.
4 But then, Sweden has been in the vanguard for quite some time.
5 It was here, he said, that the Taliban played a vanguard role.
1 The advance guard was now at the foot of the sheer cliff.
2 Almost at the same moment, the soldiers of the advance guard arrived.
3 Then the advance guard was halted till all the soldiers caught up.
4 Corrals, pens, and sheds have been first labors of the advance guard .
5 As soon as his advance guard appeared, the besiegers fled before him.
6 Maybe it's only a advance guard , and thar's a bigger body behint.
7 Trumpets almost certainly meant the advance guard of Vinas Solamnus's army.
8 And there's more troops coming; this is just the advance guard .
9 Instantly the twenty-nine charged; with equal celerity the advance guard bolted.
10 See-their advance guard now-thereon the rising ground in front of the gate.
11 A couple of miles from the Lint homestead she met its advance guard .
12 A cloud of dust accompanied the advance guard of the storm.
13 For the Prussian armies are, pre-eminently, the advance guard of the Servile State.
14 By this time the advance guard was coming up the road.
15 One of the advance guard , no doubt, brought down in flight.
16 When the battalions were proved, and before forming the advance guard .
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This collocation consists of: Advance guard through the time
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