Example sentences of "[prep] [art] blind [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Chris became involved with Guide Dogs for the Blind while in the Army Cadet Force .
2 A CHEQUE FOR £2,000 was recently handed over to the guide Dog for the Blind Association at the Shell/Esso Gas Plant at St Fergus .
3 Alone in her room , banging the knob of the blind cord against the glass in the window in frustration , Alexandra glared out into the darkening world and raged .
4 If only they had possessed just a little more of that rare commodity , plus the assistance of a blind man with an abacus , it might not have taken both channels until 1.30 in the morning to start predicting an absolute majority for Mr Major .
5 Some have fleshy whiskers half as long as their bodies which they project forward and wave about , like a blind person with a stick .
6 One is faced here with the blind spot of the dominant form of Irish nationalism , already so apparent in the preamble to the constitution itself , a blindness made possible by the ideological differentiation of state and religion combined with the ideological unity of the people , seen at once as both nation and catholic .
7 Then with her crutch to aid her she slipped out of the door and round the blind side of the building , hobbling into the cover of the under-brush .
8 I could hear their feet on the stairs , then a voice shouting down to the blind man in the road outside : ‘ Pew !
9 Two windsurfers , like rainbow-flashing kingfishers , cut dramatically and dangerously back and forth at right angles to the blind spot of the bow .
10 Llanelli 's second try , a disarmingly easy one by Steve Bowling on the blind side of a scrum-five , was of more modest proportions and if Jeff Bird had kicked more than one of the six chances he had the conclusion would by half-time have been foregone .
11 Which he did , a good two feet clear of the gaping open ditch which lay on the blind side of the hedge .
12 When his telling cross arrived in the danger area , Stainrod stole in on the blind side of the Perth defence to power the ball home first time from 12 yards .
13 In all likelihood Dean Richards will play on the blind side in the Test Team and hence it will be necessary to have additional cover at No 8 .
14 It is interesting to reflect on the value of a guide dog to a blind person as an aid to independence in the AL of maintaining a safe environment .
15 I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen .
16 When the police arrived to rescue the driver , who 'd parked on a blind bend of the motorway , he 'd explained that he had n't wanted to risk ruining his tyre by driving the extra distance to the hard shoulder .
17 ‘ Metaphysics ’ has been defined as the attempt by a blind man in a dark room to find a black hat which is n't there .
18 Previously , the start was determined by a blind draw within the first seeding group of 15 .
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