Example sentences of "[noun pl] heading for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the happiest band of travellers are 5,000 St Johnstone fans heading for the seaside and a match against Ayr United which will decide the First Division Championship . |
| 2 | And tears of farewell.The Bosnians heading for a new life . |
| 3 | Police and motoring organisations warned that drivers heading for the capital are certain to face lengthy delays as thousands of extra people take to the roads . |
| 4 | On the M4 at Swindon , lorry drivers heading for Wales decide whether to use the Severn Bridge at a cost of £8.40 return , or divert through Gloucestershire . |
| 5 | What little research has been done in this area suggests that the proportion of deprived youngsters heading for the great outdoors is disproportionately low . |
| 6 | Army movements began at 9 a.m. , with columns heading for the Austrian , Italian and Hungarian borders of Slovenia . |
| 7 | The gig sold out months ago and , despite EMF 's claims to be moving away from the teeny audience , Silverfish are forced to open the show a good two hours earlier than normal to accommodate the expected exodus of punters heading for an early bedtime . |
| 8 | about the army helicopters heading for the clouds ? |
| 9 | In the first premonition , Mr Reynolds saw himself standing on the footplate of No 43106 leaving Bridgnorth , smoke-box first , with some covered wagons heading for Bewdley . |
| 10 | In October the Hamoaze was filled with ships bearing the first contingent of Canadians heading for the front . |
| 11 | THREE coaches heading for Amsterdam were halted by police after claims that travellers were smoking cannabis , drinking and abusing coach drivers . |
| 12 | The potential customers are hungry Phoenix developers and construction workers heading for the battered remains of Kuwait city . |
| 13 | In the nineteenth century , Italians and Alsatians heading for the New World arrived and departed via the great Paris terminals . |
| 14 | I made tea for him as he worked , watching a vee of geese heading for the interior as the kettle boiled . |
| 15 | ‘ Gibraltar is a popular stop-over for boats heading for races off Greece , Yugoslavia and Turkey . |
| 16 | But Loganair 's excuse yesterday left 19 would-be island-hoppers heading for Benbecula and Barra not only speechless but also seatless . |
| 17 | On board were hundreds of campaigners heading for a national demonstration against the government 's rail privatisation plans . |
| 18 | The A-300 Airbus was carrying 167 passengers and crew — including many British climbers and trekkers heading for Nepal 's magnificent peaks . |
| 19 | On April 12 two Fireflies on patrol attacked a formation of Japanese bombers heading for Okinawa , four of the bombers being shot down and the fifth badly damaged . |
| 20 | Just like trippers heading for the Isle of Wight , they had packed their picnic baskets and sat chatting on deck as their excited children played . |
| 21 | The surprise for well-fed French bureaucrats heading for a busy day paper shuffling at the European Commission was lightened only by the inclusion of croissants as a side course . |
| 22 | A hastily arranged challenge from Borders Roads Department led to a team from Lothian Highways heading for Kelso for a twenty overs a side match at the end of June . |
| 23 | The District Line dived into the earth half-way along the Barons Court Road , to which it ran parallel , the trains heading for Charing Cross and then out into the East End , from where Uncle Ted had originally come . |
| 24 | Des Koogan would have his work cut out to keep at bay all the reporters and photographers heading for the college , Loretta thought with the ghost of a smile . |
| 25 | The United States is asking the U N security council to authorize a stop and search operation against ships heading for Haiti . |
| 26 | Good Evening : Six hundred travellers ' vehicles heading for Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice have been banned from there , so farmers here have been warned that they 're looking for an alternative location . |
| 27 | By the outbreak of World War II rather more was being made of the ceremony itself , but it would appear that the reasons given by working class couples heading for the altar were still somewhat pragmatic . |
| 28 | Runners heading for Greenwich Park must make certain that they only use the St Mary 's Gate entrance , off William Walk and Romney Road . |
| 29 | A spokeswoman for the US relief agency Care said on Nov. 12 that as many as 40 people might have died in a gunfight between guards and gunmen who ambushed a convoy of trucks heading for Baidoa north-west of Mogadishu laden with grain for starving people , forcing all but one truck to turn back . |
| 30 | The Burgage is close to Cheltenham race course and race goers heading for the first day of the Cheltenham Gold Cup meeting were diverted away from the murder house . |