Example sentences of "[pers pn] be heading for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am heading for a wilding apple tree I discovered last year — sniffed out , actually , since its lemon-yellow fruits smelt deliciously of quince and scented the air for dozens of yards around . |
| 2 | We 're two thirds of the way along I thought , Sheila , I said , I 'm heading for the wrong bridge . |
| 3 | I 'm heading for the Forth road instead of the bridge . |
| 4 | Richard said : ‘ I was heading for a perfect landing , but leaned back and landed flat . |
| 5 | For example , if you are heading for a village to the North , the compass can show you which direction to walk in . |
| 6 | ‘ If you are heading for a cliff at high speed in a motor car , it might be undignified to make a U-turn . |
| 7 | You 're heading for a nasty fall — into the fiery furnace of damnation . |
| 8 | He deserved it , there was no doubt about that , but still something inside him whispered , ‘ You 're heading for a fall . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 're heading for a bad attack of sunburn . ’ |
| 10 | If you 're heading for the Paris Disney during the Easter holidays , how can you beat the queues ? |
| 11 | I said she I think she 's heading for a nervous breakdown . |
| 12 | ‘ I bet she 's heading for the bar — if it 's open yet . ’ |
| 13 | She breezed on by , presumably expecting him to follow ; she was heading for a side-entrance to the house that was reached through an overgrown kitchen garden . |
| 14 | Later in the morning we were able to confirm that she was heading for a port in Southern Ireland . |
| 15 | Her family had never doubted she was heading for the top job . |
| 16 | Grabbing a robe and a towel , she was heading for the shower when someone tapped quietly at the cabin door . |
| 17 | She was heading for the supermercado when a flaxen-haired man with a teak-dark tan waved vigorously from beyond a group of onlookers on the opposite side of the square . |
| 18 | Minutes later we are heading for a small island group north of Vengsøya , to round that and head on for the next . |
| 19 | ‘ Then we are heading for a world full of Frankenstein monsters , Mary ! ’ exclaimed Byron , slapping his leg . |
| 20 | ‘ We are heading for a 1,000 case increase this year on the number of cases we deal with , ’ she said . |
| 21 | WE 'RE HEADING FOR THE ROCKS |
| 22 | We 're heading for the caravan with the sun painted on it . |
| 23 | Tonight we 're heading for the finish in George Town . |
| 24 | We were heading for a little cluster of figures round something on the beach . |
| 25 | NSS , in common with virtually every other publication in the country , got its fingers burnt last week as a result of giving too much credence to the pollsters ' consistent message that we were heading for a hung parliament . |
| 26 | We were heading for the Westerman Islands on the far south-east corner of Iceland and a front came in faster than Robin Knox-Johnston , the skipper , had anticipated . |
| 27 | They are heading for a gathering at a place I can not see on my map , but they seem content with the direction I have chosen . |
| 28 | As for the Socialists , they have been told so often that they are heading for a total rout that they will actually be relieved if they manage to get the 20 per cent which the last polls were predicting . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's all the same with these women who think they 're heading for the top . |
| 30 | They 're heading for the courts . |