Example sentences of "[pers pn] be heading for a " 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 | Richard said : ‘ I was heading for a perfect landing , but leaned back and landed flat . |
| 3 | For example , if you are heading for a village to the North , the compass can show you which direction to walk in . |
| 4 | ‘ If you are heading for a cliff at high speed in a motor car , it might be undignified to make a U-turn . |
| 5 | You 're heading for a nasty fall — into the fiery furnace of damnation . |
| 6 | He deserved it , there was no doubt about that , but still something inside him whispered , ‘ You 're heading for a fall . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You 're heading for a bad attack of sunburn . ’ |
| 8 | I said she I think she 's heading for a nervous breakdown . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Later in the morning we were able to confirm that she was heading for a port in Southern Ireland . |
| 11 | Minutes later we are heading for a small island group north of Vengsøya , to round that and head on for the next . |
| 12 | ‘ Then we are heading for a world full of Frankenstein monsters , Mary ! ’ exclaimed Byron , slapping his leg . |
| 13 | ‘ We are heading for a 1,000 case increase this year on the number of cases we deal with , ’ she said . |
| 14 | We were heading for a little cluster of figures round something on the beach . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | LABOUR 'S health spokesman , Mr Robin Cook , claimed during health questions that eye tests were dropping so steeply since charges were imposed earlier this year that they were heading for a fall of three million , but health minister Mrs Virginia Bottomley said the Government had not yet reviewed the effect of charges . |
| 19 | It 's heading for a two and a half million pound overspend while having to deal with more than nine thousand repairs . |
| 20 | It is heading for a thumping loss of more than FF700m ( about £85m ) this year and if you believe all the doomsters and gloomsters , the vultures are already circling over the lovable animated characters created by the legendary Walt Disney . |
| 21 | Musically , he was heading for a standard , slightly throw-away show , when the first special guest appeared . |
| 22 | He was heading for a desolate inland area in the north-east , a region without large cities and with few towns , a flat endless landscape of black earth , dotted with primitive cottages made of sods of turf and sticks . |
| 23 | He was heading for a particular corner seat in the staff common room . |
| 24 | He was heading for a career in medicine when , at the age of 18 , he saw his first motor race . |