Example sentences of "a blind eye [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They provide cover for them , they harbour them , they turn a blind eye to their work . ’ |
| 2 | Whisked ‘ Andrew has always regarded her as a good mother but he can no longer turn a blind eye to her behaviour . |
| 3 | It should be Christians , and not only Marxists , who assert that capitalism too easily turns a blind eye to its exploitation of the Third World . |
| 4 | Turning a blind eye to his presence was one thing , he said , but being party to malicious damage quite another . |
| 5 | Whereas Nicolae preferred to turn a blind eye to his son 's misdemeanours , which were so unlike his own abstemious and dedicated youth , Elena seemed almost to prefer Nicu 's bad behaviour to Valentin 's modest and retiring example . |