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

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1 After pulling on her clothes , she headed downstairs for the perfunctory glass of orange-juice which served as breakfast .
2 Outdoors , he continued to carry the picture while walking bipedally , and he headed directly for the gorilla quarters which were located near the adult-ape house on a hill behind the language lab .
3 Most days Jo headed straight for the nearest john and took the hideous contraption off as soon as she was alone , muttering , ‘ If you got it , flaunt it ! ’ as she threw back her shoulders and felt the liberated flesh bounce free .
4 After three years of more or less benevolent autocracy , Valery Gergiev is happy with the facts about his Kirov company : the fact that for the 1989–90 season , very much against the malingering influence of Leningrad 's cultural bureaucrats and an army of silently disapproving critics , he headed straight for uncut Mussorgsky ( original Boris , Shostakovich- orchestrated Khovanshchina , Sorochinsky Fair , The Marriage , Salammbô ) ; and the fact that the following year , with the situation in newly-renamed St Petersburg worsening day by day , he set about four Prokofiev operas within a matter of months .
5 On our arrival at the Wildfowl Trust Refuge , we headed straight for the STOP-SPOT board in the foyer .
6 Then it headed straight for the nearest suitable planet and effected a landing .
7 Then hiss ! — surge ! — vroom ! — it headed straight for us like a thousand-miles-an-hour nightmare !
8 She headed straight for the coffee-pot .
9 Glumly we headed Islingtonwards for the ritual finger-wagging and fine .
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