Example sentences of "[prep] a blind [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They chose their high-flying ceremony after a blind date and party brought them together . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He lived the part of a blind man so much so that he tripped and fell after leaving the set and damaged the cornea of his eye because he had trained himself not to blink ! |
| 4 | In place of a blind faith in divine providence , they proposed a rational social contract which they believed would free mankind from many of our perennial ills . |
| 5 | So the teacher of a blind child , while allowing all along in the child 's education for the difficulties he encounters , still prefers to emphasise to everyone the sameness of the child ( his skills and achievements ) . |
| 6 | at the eyes of a blind toy , holding its paw . |
| 7 | These doubts about the merit of a blind pursuit of perfect competition lie behind the UK policy and the judgements of the MMC . |
| 8 | Arrested by recognition , she stared at the picture — one of Elise 's best — of a blind gypsy . |
| 9 | He is the son of a blind mother in suburban London who hears from his policeman father ( James Fox ) of attacks on blind women . |
| 10 | The aggressive creation of nation-States as part of a blind process of self-modernization , that ultimately produced popular nationalisms , could not be repeated . |
| 11 | The woman stood in the hallway for a moment like a blind person unsure of her direction . |
| 12 | Some have fleshy whiskers half as long as their bodies which they project forward and wave about , like a blind person with a stick . |
| 13 | She frowned , gliding the pads of her fingers across the shape like a blind person reading braille , feeling every contour . |
| 14 | Running upstairs to the sitting-room window , he was in time to see her cross the road , staring up and down vaguely like a blind person . |
| 15 | It was like a blind kitten . |
| 16 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 17 | ‘ Diving into the pool is like a blind date , ’ he laughed . |
| 18 | so I actually felt that although that presentation was very good , it was almost like a blind presentation because there was no benefit to him at the end of it because he , he did n't have , you had n't got those finishing point |
| 19 | as if to turn attention away from the continual coldness of his hands , he pulled on the gloves comically and pretended to grope about the room with them like a blind man . |
| 20 | He knew no cheap place here any more and he would have to search one out like a blind man . |
| 21 | So many times he had padded across this bedroom to go to Abigail that he knew it perfectly in the dark , only requiring to hold his hands out before him and , like a blind man , feel the bevelled comer of the wardrobe , the lacquered wicker of a chair back , the top of the radiator , cold at this hour , the glass sphere of the door knob . |
| 22 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |
| 23 | He swung the stick in front of him , like a blind man searching for obstacles . |
| 24 | It was like a blind man walking down a familiar corridor . |
| 25 | The moon was huge and monstrous in the darkness : a full , bright circle , like a blind eye staring down from nothingness . |
| 26 | After such rows , her mother would sometimes stay in her room for days on end or trail round the house like a blind stranger , oblivious to Katherine 's existence . |
| 27 | Marcus came round the door feelingly like a blind creature , clinging with fingers to edges and surfaces Although the front door opened into the Sitting-room he was plainly disconcerted to find them there . |
| 28 | ‘ Sometimes one of the oldies will shout , ‘ Make way for a blind pensioner ’ , and we 'll let them take a wave , ’ the younger surfers laugh . |
| 29 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
| 30 | Now I do n't know if you remember English Whites but Danny Baker once had a caller to 606 who claimed to have been setup for a blind date a few years ago , and when he met the girl in question , one of his mates says ‘ Bloody hell she does n't half look like that player ( Kenny ) who 's in the Blues ’ ( Brum City where he built his stout reputation ) . |