Example sentences of "[prep] heading for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They leave their civilian jobs , and instead of heading for home and a quiet night in front of the television , report in to their company bases , change into military uniform and are briefed for the night 's patrol tasks , which will take them through until the early hours of the morning , When they again become civilians . |
| 2 | Asked why , amid the riots , he was off to yet another fundraiser instead of heading for Los Angeles , Clinton responded that ‘ life must go on ’ . |
| 3 | So , instead of heading for the ferry port , why do n't we drive down to my little house in the Wicklow Mountains ? ’ |
| 4 | Charlton 's seven-year love affair with the Irish shows no signs of heading for the divorce courts . |
| 5 | Back at the hotel , instead of heading for the bedroom , she led him to the bar , where they took a couple of glasses of malt and fell to chatting with some locals who 'd ‘ just dropped by to have a nightcap ’ despite the fact it was gone midnight and they all had work to go to in the morning . |
| 6 | I hunched down in my pouch-seat , trying hard to think of a good argument against heading for Fraxilly . |
| 7 | The Chelsea ground where John Major and David Mellor spent their Saturdays in quieter times is the prize in a tussle which is already into extra-time and looks like heading for a replay . |
| 8 | Well you do , but you do n't put , do n't put like heading for a business thing and |
| 9 | RETIRING House of Commons Speaker Bernard Weatherill is wasting no time in heading for the world of business . |
| 10 | The agency reported that the group hid in a pine forest for several hours before heading for a town and finding the Chinese restaurant . |
| 11 | Fry said his farewells to the players who regarded him as a father figure before heading for home in Bedford a devastated man . |
| 12 | The LSIs anchored in a bay beyond the sight of and direct fire from the Maaloy batteries , giving the assault craft a run down the coast round a headland before heading for the beaches , while the cruiser bombarded Maaloy and destroyers engaged other targets . |
| 13 | It will loiter in the London area for a week before heading for the rest of Britain . |
| 14 | The trip starts in Malaga , through Andalucian villages to Granada , before heading for Cazorla where four days are spent rambling in the Sierra Nature Reserve . |
| 15 | Previous page : Lake Samiti , last stop before heading for the heights . |
| 16 | The malai jumped a mile-you could see he 'd nearly had a heart-attack — before heading for the ground , shouting our number and whereabouts to his friends . |
| 17 | Then he glanced fleetingly at Shiona before heading for the staircase . |
| 18 | Having waved them to a table , he flourished two wine glasses , which he filled to the brim with an excellent Chianti , before heading for the kitchen . |
| 19 | He then visited the Birkenhead headquarters of Cewtec , before heading for Liverpool . |
| 20 | Heaven knows who it was who set their mind on heading for that pointy wee soul but , like most hill-walkers , once a route is planned we would sooner see the laws of physics change before our itinerary did . |
| 21 | Politicians from Premier John Major downwards often escape the pressures of the Commons by heading for their favourite Indian restaurant . |
| 22 | Mr Bush , who escaped the immediate political storm by heading for his holiday home at Camp David , praised Weinberger as ‘ a true American patriot ’ . |