Example sentences of "[was/were] head for the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The bulldozers had turned round now and were heading for the bridge . |
| 4 | They were heading for the bullseye to begin with , but then the target started to accelerate it speeded up . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some fifteen minutes after Thomas departed , accompanied by his small daughter , two elderly ladies were heading for the bakery to buy some salt . |
| 8 | They were headed for the bay . ’ |
| 9 | What you were doing was heading for the exit ! ’ |
| 10 | He was heading for the villa but not on the drive itself . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But I 'd closed the car door by then and was heading for the deli . |
| 14 | In Hobson 's bleak vision , European civilization , for all its nineteenth-century promise , was heading for the fate of the Roman Empire . |
| 15 | Grabbing a robe and a towel , she was heading for the shower when someone tapped quietly at the cabin door . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | ONCE a car to aspire to , Buick lost its lustre and was heading for the scrapheap . |
| 18 | Everyone was heading for the bedroom from which had come the screams . |
| 19 | As far as he could see , Maisie , who was now thoroughly disorientated , was headed for the pond in the centre of the Common . |