Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] blind [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's those people of the inn — it 's that boy ! ’ shouted the blind man Pew . |
| 2 | I seen a blind man once — he 'd got a stick so he could tap the pavement so he did n't fall down no holes . |
| 3 | It seemed the blind girl found living with Boz and his bride very restricting , but due to the bad weather she was not allowed to leave the camp for much of the winter . |
| 4 | Sir John — who lives in Denham , Bucks — recently returned from Poland where , ironically , he played a blind man for a new film . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh ! ’ shrieked the blind man . |
| 6 | Naturally , father knew , but turned a blind eye . |
| 7 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 8 | It featured Shaun and Bez again , ‘ off our heads , in full throttle , coming out with all sorts of shit ’ , except this time no one turned a blind eye , offered excuses or mildly slapped their wrists . |
| 9 | And turned a blind eye to the sinking S** . |
| 10 | Our knowledge of all these sides of religious life at Canterbury at the time of the Conquest has had to be reconstructed by laborious scholarship , largely because Lanfranc turned a blind eye to every aspect of a native religious tradition . |
| 11 | Stalin 's collectivization and industrialization drive launched at the end of the 1920s was accompanied by untold horrors : acute deprivation of workers and peasants alike , epitomized by a catastrophic famine in 1933 to which the government turned a blind eye ; repression and imprisonment on a truly mass scale ; and the blood-letting of the Great Terror of 1936–38 . |
| 12 | Incidentally ; the choice of these two films represents a critical opinion , not only of their special effects though these are outstanding too , even if Oscar turned a blind eye but of the films as a whole . |
| 13 | turned a blind eye to fibre optics , |
| 14 | The staff knew what was going on but they turned a blind eye . |
| 15 | Marasli wanted nothing but a quiet life , and turned a blind eye to Miloš 's encroachments . |
| 16 | Rex turned a blind eye to the fact that he was obviously Officer Cecil , poorly disguised in false moustache , tailcoat and spats . |
| 17 | Members of the Academy turned a blind eye to the black marketeers , because the Seven Planets needed food and supplies and the corporations would n't trade with independent worlds . |
| 18 | Nelson , who took Murdoch 's place in goal , first of all did as his namesake and turned a blind eye to a cross from McGinlay . |
| 19 | Hal , while he was flipping over some burgers , ‘ turned a blind eye ’ and pretended not to notice her ‘ mistake ’ . |
| 20 | They grabbed the blind fortune teller and flung him brutally against the wall of a josh-house . |
| 21 | He saw the blind man and a look of fear passed across his face . |
| 22 | Everybody knew the blind fiddler and he had always his kilt on and But after a while , I do n't know , the next time he came round I mind he had trousers on and we did n't think he was the same man at all , no . |
| 23 | ‘ If you saw a blind man coming along , would n't you feel sorry for him and want to help him ? ’ |
| 24 | At about three o'clock in the afternoon , I was standing at the door of the inn when I saw a blind man coming along the road . |
| 25 | Do you know , I went in there right and the majority of people never took no blind bit of notice then suddenly one person walked through the door , you know , he 's always playing next to me and he sits down , puts his trumpet there , gets his trumpet on ya , sits there , turns round and the next thing he were laying on the floor going |
| 26 | Meh'Lindi and Grimm followed his lead , and Meh'Lindi flipped the blind woman 's visor shut too . |
| 27 | ‘ Sit where you are , Bill , ’ said the blind man . |
| 28 | ‘ And now that 's done , ’ said the blind man , and he quickly went out of the inn . |
| 29 | He had a blind sister to take care of . |
| 30 | Ruth saw she could n't last long ; her face had a blind look , as if she could no longer see through the dazzling fire . |