Example sentences of "[noun pl] headed for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motorways and high streets around the country ground to a halt as shoppers headed for the stores . |
| 2 | The crash on the A423 in Oxfordshire came as drivers headed for home after the weekend break . |
| 3 | Stirling , Cooper and Seekings headed for Benina which they knew from past experience was a major repair base . |
| 4 | The following day , the visitors headed for the field and toured LASMO 's Santiago field gathering and pumping facility . |
| 5 | Relations deteriorated further in late March as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Kurdish refugees headed for the Iranian border . |
| 6 | There are countless individual stories encapsulated in the photographs of migrant workers arriving at Continental stations or commuters pouring into the London termini , of the Jews being herded on to trains headed for the death-camps , or of armies departing for half a dozen different wars — the brave , cheerful , youthful faces of a nation 's young men heading off for the rendezvous with destiny . |
| 7 | Entire neighbourhoods headed for the unexpected one-way potlatch . |
| 8 | Ticket sales were boosted by the Thanksgiving holidays when millions of Americans headed for cinemas . |
| 9 | An ambitious programme involving British Waterways , the City Council and private developers was begun and the docks headed for a new future . |
| 10 | Next to it was a modern block which the men headed for . |
| 11 | Thus , when a number of media people went to Basra , Tony and a few others headed for Nasariyah . |
| 12 | The boys headed for the tea-table , not quite hurrying , with the two umpires strolling behind and a frigid few paces apart . |