Example sentences of "[vb past] a blind [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sir John — who lives in Denham , Bucks — recently returned from Poland where , ironically , he played a blind man for a new film . |
| 3 | Naturally , father knew , but turned a blind eye . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And turned a blind eye to the sinking S** . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | turned a blind eye to fibre optics , |
| 11 | The staff knew what was going on but they turned a blind eye . |
| 12 | Marasli wanted nothing but a quiet life , and turned a blind eye to Miloš 's encroachments . |
| 13 | Rex turned a blind eye to the fact that he was obviously Officer Cecil , poorly disguised in false moustache , tailcoat and spats . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Hal , while he was flipping over some burgers , ‘ turned a blind eye ’ and pretended not to notice her ‘ mistake ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ If you saw a blind man coming along , would n't you feel sorry for him and want to help him ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had a blind sister to take care of . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Do you know something else , we had a blind date with her |
| 22 | They went into the living-room and Lee turned off the television and they ate scrambled eggs in silence , Lee sitting on her resentment and Philippa thinking how impossible it was to talk to someone who had a blind spot , a crazy gap , a fatal flaw . |
| 23 | The trouble was , Tweed was thinking , Paula had a blind spot where Dalby was concerned . |
| 24 | Dana had a blind spot where her own interests lay . |
| 25 | He mentioned the insults his father had received from a young man near Trantridge who had a blind mother . |
| 26 | It remained 10–0 until 15 minutes from time , when Gibson picked up from a scrum and launched a blind side move which put skipper Steve Towns over . |