Example sentences of "turned a blind eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , father knew , but turned a blind eye . |
| 2 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 3 | It featured Shaun and Bez again , ‘ off our heads , in full throttle , coming out with all sorts of shit ’ , except this time no one turned a blind eye , offered excuses or mildly slapped their wrists . |
| 4 | And turned a blind eye to the sinking S** . |
| 5 | Our knowledge of all these sides of religious life at Canterbury at the time of the Conquest has had to be reconstructed by laborious scholarship , largely because Lanfranc turned a blind eye to every aspect of a native religious tradition . |
| 6 | Stalin 's collectivization and industrialization drive launched at the end of the 1920s was accompanied by untold horrors : acute deprivation of workers and peasants alike , epitomized by a catastrophic famine in 1933 to which the government turned a blind eye ; repression and imprisonment on a truly mass scale ; and the blood-letting of the Great Terror of 1936–38 . |
| 7 | Incidentally ; the choice of these two films represents a critical opinion , not only of their special effects though these are outstanding too , even if Oscar turned a blind eye but of the films as a whole . |
| 8 | turned a blind eye to fibre optics , |
| 9 | The staff knew what was going on but they turned a blind eye . |
| 10 | Marasli wanted nothing but a quiet life , and turned a blind eye to Miloš 's encroachments . |
| 11 | Rex turned a blind eye to the fact that he was obviously Officer Cecil , poorly disguised in false moustache , tailcoat and spats . |
| 12 | Members of the Academy turned a blind eye to the black marketeers , because the Seven Planets needed food and supplies and the corporations would n't trade with independent worlds . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Hal , while he was flipping over some burgers , ‘ turned a blind eye ’ and pretended not to notice her ‘ mistake ’ . |