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

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1 The role play can become more interesting , and more complex — if , for example B becomes the blind parent of a sighted child being shown round the classroom or the hall by A , a teacher in that school .
2 Not for him the blind search for a nipple , no free of the womb' spasms to jerk his limbs ; he was happy to be apart , independent , an entity unto himself .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It was a strange sight : a blind man at a spectacle .
6 Sir John — who lives in Denham , Bucks — recently returned from Poland where , ironically , he played a blind man for a new film .
7 ‘ 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 .
8 It 's like putting a blind man in a fast car and telling him to drive where and how he likes .
9 Some have fleshy whiskers half as long as their bodies which they project forward and wave about , like a blind person with a stick .
10 Then it was the latter 's turn to make a blind swing into a bottomless groove to start the second pitch .
11 ‘ It says , apparently , ’ she went on , ‘ that a blind boy with a mark on his face will ‘ come out of the West ’ .
12 If the police went charging up a blind alley as a result of her information , it would n't be her fault .
13 Trident seems to occupy a blind spot for a Government otherwise over-enthusiastic about cutbacks in public expenditure .
14 Address the document to Fred in the usual way but also send a blind copy to a folder called 193O728 — named after the date on which you wish to be reminded , in reverse .
15 Such sums are not obtained without some sort of commitment to success which , in contemporary terms , means circulation and advertising rather than a blind commitment to a political creed .
16 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 .
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