Example sentences of "turn a blind eye [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were attached to the Royal Irish Constabulary yet had no police training , and , knowing the British Cabinet would turn a blind eye to their activities , they had quickly proved uncontrollable . |
| 2 | The Guyanese mining community is small but powerful and Indians fear that the government will turn a blind eye to their protests . |
| 3 | Whisked ‘ Andrew has always regarded her as a good mother but he can no longer turn a blind eye to her behaviour . |
| 4 | So we 're parking illegally but the police actually have almo they 've said they will turn a blind eye to it if providing that we all do it sensibly and without and face like in the line of the traffic . |
| 5 | Not even the fine citizens of Ecoville who have to get their rake-off too , or they would n't turn a blind eye to it . |
| 6 | So why not turn a blind eye to it in a world dogged by unemployment ? |
| 7 | I 'm , I 'm , quite amazed that , that , the question has even been asked , you know , that er that , that , er is this a good thing , I mean er presumably the people that are arguing that it 's not a good thing and that are concerned about events are actually condoning imperialism , er these people seem to think that it 's okay for a country to be occupied er like Poland was occupied by Germany and Czechoslovakia and France , that 's okay er and in fact you know we should just turn a blind eye to it and just let it carry on forever . |