Example sentences of "was heading for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beck , who had defeated Aki Ohmachi of Japan 8 and 6 in the first round , was heading for an even bigger defeat . |
| 2 | THE black Democratic candidate for Virginia state governor , Mr Douglas Wilder , was heading for an historic victory last night , writes Simon Tisdall in Richmond , Virginia . |
| 3 | THE black Democratic candidate for Virginia state governor , Mr Douglas Wilder , was heading for an historic victory last night , according to a CBS exit poll , writes Simon Tisdall in Richmond , Virginia . |
| 4 | Musically , he was heading for a standard , slightly throw-away show , when the first special guest appeared . |
| 5 | Shortages and rising prices could mean the world was heading for ‘ the grain shock of 1992 ’ , a crisis for which it was unprepared . |
| 6 | In 1956 , of course , the Conservative party was heading for one of the few post-war political events unequivocally more damaging to it than the current poll-tax furore — the Suez crisis . |
| 7 | ONCE a car to aspire to , Buick lost its lustre and was heading for the scrapheap . |
| 8 | She had already had one nervous breakdown , which was no doubt a great nuisance to everybody , and now she was heading for something worse : agoraphobia . |
| 9 | This view represented the thoughts of an ever-growing majority whose intuitive feeling was that the Merseyside plant was heading for total and irreversible closure with the loss of ten thousand jobs . |
| 10 | And now she was heading for us , the biro between her teeth , the light of battle glinting behind her frameless glasses . |
| 11 | However , he played far better yesterday and was heading for a 67 until he unexpectedly dropped shots at both the 16th and 17th . |
| 12 | Hodge equalised Gannon 's second-minute goal in the eighth minute , and it looked as though the game was heading for a draw . |
| 13 | Had I read the brochure carefully I would have realised that the experience I was heading for was anything but tedious ! |
| 14 | He was 56 years old and was heading for his magnificent home in Warwickshire , Kenilworth Castle . |
| 15 | CONFIDENTIAL advice to the government last year warned that British science was heading for trouble . |
| 16 | JTR was heading for Glencoe and the Caledonian Canal . |
| 17 | He was heading for Inverness ultimately but made several sketching forays westward from Laggan Locks . |
| 18 | In November I wrote that actress Miranda Richardson was heading for Hollywood . |
| 19 | The three major airports in the Washington region were shut down until it was clear which one the plane was heading for . |
| 20 | He was heading for a desolate inland area in the north-east , a region without large cities and with few towns , a flat endless landscape of black earth , dotted with primitive cottages made of sods of turf and sticks . |
| 21 | The third was heading for Isengard , to alarm Pippin on its way with the thought that it had somehow been despatched for him ( 11 , 204 ) . |
| 22 | In Hobson 's bleak vision , European civilization , for all its nineteenth-century promise , was heading for the fate of the Roman Empire . |
| 23 | The dark blue £415,000 car was stopped between Preston and Lancaster on Sunday as Mr Vilaseca was heading for a holiday in Scotland . |
| 24 | Last night he was heading for London with wife Mona , to collect his Littlewoods cheque . |
| 25 | Managing director Alan Smith said the region was heading for a water shortage in the next 25 years . |
| 26 | But the Queen , horrified to learn that her favourite son 's marriage was heading for the rocks , could not utter the words of comfort the agonised redhead most needed to hear . |
| 27 | DAVID Mellor was heading for the political scrapheap last night after Downing Street revealed that he did NOT seek permission for his ‘ freebie ’ holiday with Mona Bauwens . |
| 28 | At the same time as Schuler made his decision Scott Pierce , a regular member of the New Zealand sevens side and a long-service North Harbour man , also said he was heading for Japan . |
| 29 | He was heading for the villa but not on the drive itself . |
| 30 | Everyone was heading for the bedroom from which had come the screams . |