Example sentences of "[vb mod] turn a blind eye " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As long as I kept just over 80mph I reckoned that , even in a red Porsche , the traffic police would turn a blind eye . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The government would turn a blind eye if the targets were foreign nationals , and particularly a despised Lebanese like Fawaz Younis . |
| 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 | The Guyanese mining community is small but powerful and Indians fear that the government will turn a blind eye to their protests . |
| 6 | I mean , there are many , many cases of injustice around the world and , the West , the British government , ca n't be responsible for all of them , but there 's , there 's one particular case of Iraq , where we 've already gone to war , to , in the cause of democracy and freedom , and I do n't believe that when Saddam offends again as he does day by day , we can turn a blind eye . |
| 7 | We can turn a blind eye to some of it , but the point is always reached when he goes too far , and intervention is required , usually only in the form of American attacks by aircraft on his offences in the em , areas where he 's not supposed to penetrate . |