Example sentences of "bound for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hydrofoil left Narvik in the early evening bound for Svolvær , on what turned out to be one of the loveliest journeys I have ever taken . |
| 2 | No 86 MEFS at Bloemspruit will continue to train for those bound for Daks and bigger transports and is tipped to be the last to convert to the ‘ new generation ’ Dakota . |
| 3 | Car owners whose main concern is to return to their parked vehicles will need to retrace their steps exactly to avoid steep cliffs at the south end , but others with no such inhibitions can extend the walk , and enjoy doing so , by following the crest of the ridge northwards until meeting the path coming up from Clapham Bottoms bound for Selside , here turning down east to join another path to Selside , this continuing the road along Crummackdale from Austwick . |
| 4 | Our confidence thus bolstered , we were now stepping eagerly out of the tent bound for Ancohuma . |
| 5 | The domestic Burmese flight was hijacked shortly after taking off from Mergui in southern Burma , bound for Rangoon . |
| 6 | But Llewellyn , as resourceful as his ancestors , gave his pursuers the slip and managed to find his way to the port of New Orleans where he boarded a ship bound for Ireland . |
| 7 | A class 76 approaches the top of Worsborough bank bound for Wath. both A.R . |
| 8 | On 5 February 1805 The Earl of Abergavenny , a merchant ship bound for India , was wrecked in Weymouth Bay . |
| 9 | Peter Coyote and Emmanuelle Seigner are the deviant couple who entrap English stiffs Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott-Thomas on-board a liner bound for India . |
| 10 | In that same month Jardine secured a position with the East India Company as ship 's surgeon 's mate aboard HCS Brunswick , bound for India . |
| 11 | Wounded FMLN guerrillas in San Salvador board a plane , believed to be bound for Chile , after they were evacuated from the Mexican Embassy , which they occupied to demand safe passage |
| 12 | Later , squatting among our baggage and fellow travellers in the back of a jeep bound for La Paz , we silently nursed our battered pride , lost in thoughts of home . |
| 13 | Top Passengers board , bound for Venice . |
| 14 | The Albert is bound for Danzig tomorrow , on the morning tide , they say . |
| 15 | The quayside had as many ferries lined up as a Greek port , big-snouted vessels bound for Orkney or the Shetland islands , and perhaps distant Ophir . |
| 16 | Three lorry loads are leaving each day bound for Cumbernauld , Elderslie or round the corner to BMK . |
| 17 | French farmers have hijacked a lorry and destroyed its load of strawberries bound for Britain . |
| 18 | Early this morning , driver Mark Driscoll from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire , bound for Britain with a load of Spanish strawberries , was forced to a halt near Bordeaux and his cargo wrecked . |
| 19 | Bosnian girl bound for Britain has disappeared . |
| 20 | Ludens was glad he had been to see Franca and felt sure , as he sat in another taxi bound for Victoria , that she had understood why , and in what frame of mind , he had come . |
| 21 | In the picture the car is bound for Victoria Pier via Lytham Road , and is thus fitted with high mesh guards on the top deck to prevent passengers hitting the centre traction poles with which this route had been re-equipped . |
| 22 | ‘ I am bound for Ludlow . ’ |
| 23 | Next morning , through the sheets of rain , another glimpse of Scottish eighteenth-century life : the men of the Macleods left the castle early bound for the next large sea-loch south of Dunvegan , Loch Bracadale , to say goodbye to emigrants bound for America . |
| 24 | The cable has left Britain at Lowestoft , a North Sea cable bound for Germany . |
| 25 | On 8 August , handcuffed to a neighbour on a train bound for Germany , she crawled round offering water to her fellow prisoners while the train was under attack by the RAF . |
| 26 | A Constellation aircraft of K.L.M. Royal Dutch Airlines left Schiphol Airport in Netherlands , bound for New York via Prestwick . |
| 27 | ‘ We sail out of Liverpool next March the eighth on the Flamingo , bound for New York . ’ |
| 28 | Following replenishment , she sailed through the Panama Canal on June 10. 1942 for San Diego and , on July 1 , left the California naval base escorting a convoy bound for New Zealand and Guadalcanal . |
| 29 | After dashing off to Canada last November , the Duchess of York jumped into a jet bound for New York , before hopping over the Atlantic for a bit of shopping in Paris . |
| 30 | By 1130 hours the load was complete and slipped , bound for Netley Buoys Where the Puma is anchored . |