Example sentences of "[was/were] heading for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crossing the room as though he were heading for the wardrobe , Angel Four suddenly changed direction , took two swift paces to his right , seized the curtains with both hands and jerked them open . |
| 2 | It is believed they were heading for the South Shields area when they disappeared Witness plea : Police have appealed for witnesses to a disturbance in the Albert Street and Princess Square area of central Harrogate on Friday . |
| 3 | Their destination could only be guessed at , but by their line of march through upper Clydesdale it looked as though they were heading for the West March , possibly even Galloway . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was n't as if they were heading for the hills . |
| 6 | The bulldozers had turned round now and were heading for the bridge . |
| 7 | When Operation Gentle Shepherd swung into action for the second time , five of the six sperm whales were coaxed by 14 rescue vessels between the islands of Swona and South Ronaldsay and were heading for the Pentland Firth when they dived beneath the waves . |
| 8 | They were heading for the bullseye to begin with , but then the target started to accelerate it speeded up . |
| 9 | He then worked as the third man on the management side at Middlesbrough , under Bruce Rioch and Colin Todd before joining Darlington , as they were heading for the GM Vauxhall Conference , three years ago . |
| 10 | Ahead and around him as he drifted forward , the melodic light was increasing gradually , growing stronger and brighter as though he were heading for the source . |
| 11 | At the height of the romance , the pair were inseparable and it was obvious to family and friends that they were heading for the altar . |
| 12 | Some fifteen minutes after Thomas departed , accompanied by his small daughter , two elderly ladies were heading for the bakery to buy some salt . |
| 13 | What you were doing was heading for the exit ! ’ |
| 14 | Mary , like myself , was heading for the Crofter 's Conference and Dinner at Stornoway . |
| 15 | He was heading for the villa but not on the drive itself . |
| 16 | Then , on sharp , swift strides he was heading for the door , while Shiona continued to stand where she was , rock still , as though rooted to the floor . |
| 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 | But I 'd closed the car door by then and was heading for the deli . |
| 19 | In Hobson 's bleak vision , European civilization , for all its nineteenth-century promise , was heading for the fate of the Roman Empire . |
| 20 | Grabbing a robe and a towel , she was heading for the shower when someone tapped quietly at the cabin door . |
| 21 | He was heading for the North Sea coast , which he would cross near Terschelling then follow for a while before turning in for the approach to Aalborg . |
| 22 | He smacked the ball and it was heading for the roof of the net but it hit a west ham player on the head and almost knocked his head off ! |
| 23 | But the Queen , horrified to learn that her favourite son 's marriage was heading for the rocks , could not utter the words of comfort the agonised redhead most needed to hear . |
| 24 | ONCE a car to aspire to , Buick lost its lustre and was heading for the scrapheap . |
| 25 | Everyone was heading for the bedroom from which had come the screams . |