Example sentences of "like a blind [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman stood in the hallway for a moment like a blind person unsure of her direction . |
| 2 | Some have fleshy whiskers half as long as their bodies which they project forward and wave about , like a blind person with a stick . |
| 3 | She frowned , gliding the pads of her fingers across the shape like a blind person reading braille , feeling every contour . |
| 4 | Running upstairs to the sitting-room window , he was in time to see her cross the road , staring up and down vaguely like a blind person . |
| 5 | It was like a blind kitten . |
| 6 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 7 | ‘ Diving into the pool is like a blind date , ’ he laughed . |
| 8 | so I actually felt that although that presentation was very good , it was almost like a blind presentation because there was no benefit to him at the end of it because he , he did n't have , you had n't got those finishing point |
| 9 | as if to turn attention away from the continual coldness of his hands , he pulled on the gloves comically and pretended to grope about the room with them like a blind man . |
| 10 | He knew no cheap place here any more and he would have to search one out like a blind man . |
| 11 | So many times he had padded across this bedroom to go to Abigail that he knew it perfectly in the dark , only requiring to hold his hands out before him and , like a blind man , feel the bevelled comer of the wardrobe , the lacquered wicker of a chair back , the top of the radiator , cold at this hour , the glass sphere of the door knob . |
| 12 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |
| 13 | He swung the stick in front of him , like a blind man searching for obstacles . |
| 14 | It was like a blind man walking down a familiar corridor . |
| 15 | The moon was huge and monstrous in the darkness : a full , bright circle , like a blind eye staring down from nothingness . |
| 16 | After such rows , her mother would sometimes stay in her room for days on end or trail round the house like a blind stranger , oblivious to Katherine 's existence . |
| 17 | Marcus came round the door feelingly like a blind creature , clinging with fingers to edges and surfaces Although the front door opened into the Sitting-room he was plainly disconcerted to find them there . |