Example sentences of "[adv] headed for " in BNC.

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1 She turned round and slowly headed for home .
2 and with a broken heart they dive down gently headed for the earth
3 A series of bad falls , a year and a half on the sidelines , and a promising career suddenly headed for oblivion .
4 It 's probably that Robert Johnson , who finally headed for the crossroads in 1938 , made more money for Sony/Columbia last year than many of their more super-hyped contemporary acts .
5 Troubled Mr Major yesterday headed for a showdown with Euro-rebels by announcing he would put the Maastricht Treaty before Parliament around Christmas .
6 The central character in this story of the times is a seventeen-year-old runaway from New York City , who is taken by the whole current youth philosophy and ends up in California , where she tries to locate her brother who also headed for San Francisco .
7 Meanwhile , International Paint representative based in Southampton in the UK , also headed for Hobart to check the 10 race yachts , all of which have been painted and anti-fouled with International products .
8 JOHN MAJOR today headed for a tough showdown with his predecessor Baroness Thatcher after MPs gave him the go-ahead to ratify the Maastricht Treaty .
9 In the meantime , the King gathered an army around himself at Shrewsbury and then headed for Oxford .
10 They placed bombs on two isolated aircraft and then headed for the hangars where they expected to find some worthwhile booty .
11 At the comparative safety of a deserted road we collected ourselves a little and then headed for the station , trying hard to chuckle about it all , though obviously we had both been deeply affected .
12 She shook her head , thanked him for his co-operation and then headed for the way out .
13 Edward turned round , walked irresolutely around the room and then headed for the door , where he halted .
14 We visited the chapel and then headed for the living quarters .
15 I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door .
16 He took Sir Bryan 's rejected set of clubs back to the caddie-master 's hut and then headed for the Tented Village .
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