Example sentences of "[vb past] blind " in BNC.
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| 1 | I slanted west through the pretty East Side , with its decorative dustbins , the paunchy awnings of the low-slung stores , the smell of dark hot trash , and dined blind with Fielding Goodney and Doris Arthur in a loud and airless media restaurant just five blocks from bubbling Harlem . |
| 2 | I recall a debate at an Age Concern England governors ' meeting no less when , in answer to my piping treble advocating such a reform , there were those present who urged caution , on the grounds that old people became blinder , deafer and dafter ( to be fair , ‘ could n't take in things so quickly ’ and ‘ could n't concentrate as much ’ were the euphemisms actually employed ) . |
| 3 | Ruth thought he was hardly aware any more of anything ; his eyes seemed blind , and his hands were clenched , but whether from pain or exaltation Ruth could n't say . |
| 4 | Sometimes though , you climbed blind , boldly , ill-informed , sand-bagged . |
| 5 | Around 1612 he became blind as a result of syphilis ; an account of his treatment is preserved in the British Library ( Sloane MS 640 ) . |
| 6 | But he was taking an interest in smaller scale work by students like Susan Williams , who became blind 4 years ago . |
| 7 | A superiority in either the perception of shape or in the perception of direction , if in fact these functions are dissociable , can account for the left hand advantage in Braille reading found for both experienced blind subjects ( Hermelin & O'Connor , 1971 ) and blindfolded normal subjects ( Smith , Chu and Edmonston , 1977 ; Harriman and Castell , 1979 ) taught to read Braille . |
| 8 | She walked and walked , up Shaftesbury Avenue , Holborn Viaduct , she gave nothing to buskers , veterans of the Great War , gassed blind , missing limbs , clinking cups , Cheapside , Threadneedle , Bishopsgate to Spitalfields . |
| 9 | ( Swore blind not to touch the telephone ) |
| 10 | C. If fifty people came to me , real honest respectable people , and swore blind you would n't escape , I would n't trust them . |
| 11 | His informant swore blind that the arms were still there . |
| 12 | So you swore blind did you ? |
| 13 | Joyride victim … a stolen car crushed blind pensioner against a wall . |
| 14 | Towards the end of his life Gouzenko went blind but the news was kept so secret that in 173 MI5 sent an agent to show him some photographs in the hope that he could recognise Hollis . |
| 15 | You went blind , you got raped , people forgot your birthday , Nixon got elected , your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham , and then you got old , you could n't walk and you died . |
| 16 | There was a crash of breaking glass and the cat went blind in one eye . |
| 17 | Chris went blind just before the Dreamflight . |
| 18 | John Hull , a lecturer at Birmingham University , went blind when he was 45 . |
| 19 | ‘ He was the strongest man I ever knew but he went blind through the strain of smithing . |
| 20 | In 1925 ten women spent a year on it , and two went blind in the process ! ’ |
| 21 | If I went blind and could n't paint … ’ |
| 22 | There was a fractional gap in time in which she went blind and deaf and limp , a second that was almost a miniature swoon in essence , but so infinitesimal that she was n't even aware of the fleeting relief , the madness in her again instantly , the craving , unbearably heightened by this first knowledge of his nakedness in contact with hers . |
| 23 | Although Brihtwine was eventually reinstated after Ælfmær vexed the Sherborne flock , went blind and returned to Canterbury , one would gladly know more of what lay behind this . |
| 24 | I went blind in me right eye overnight . |
| 25 | A gardener who went blind four years ago is now successfully running his own business . |
| 26 | Fand paused , and her eyes looked blind . |
| 27 | Dom Pérignon grew blind in his final years but this did not prevent — it rather enhanced — his passion for the art of winemaking . |
| 28 | I felt blind , and longed for second sight . |
| 29 | Pellets from these cultures were coded and assayed blind for M paratuberculosis and M avium subsp silvaticum using IS900- and IS902-PCR ( polymerase chain reaction ) assays , respectively . |
| 30 | Theory 3 — That the West had been too lax in the post-war years and had blind faith in the hope that the unity achieved after the first World War would be re-kindled . |