Example sentences of "[verb] a blind " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't know a blind thing ! |
| 2 | THE avenue to UEFA Cup qualification is fast becoming a blind alley for Hibs . |
| 3 | Address the document to Fred in the usual way but also send a blind copy to a folder called 193O728 — named after the date on which you wish to be reminded , in reverse . |
| 4 | I seen a blind man once — he 'd got a stick so he could tap the pavement so he did n't fall down no holes . |
| 5 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 6 | It was put into production with so many faults that , to this day , the Fl is virtually unflyable at night , and has a blind spot which ensures that few Fl pilots will come out of any dogfight alive . |
| 7 | He 'd already turned a blind eye when a couple of his lorries got hi-jacked . |
| 8 | Armed guards told thousands of people with jobs in the western sector they should not report for work ‘ for the time being ’ , while a few were said to have turned a blind eye as scores of their fellow citizens ran for freedom . |
| 9 | Japanese authorities have turned a blind eye to the rapid expansion of their drift-net fleet . |
| 10 | ‘ Council 's turned a blind eye to it previously but I 'm in charge now and I 'm booking you under the Fireworks and Public Entertainments byelaw . ’ |
| 11 | English-speaking countries , however , have been relatively unaware of this activity because of language barriers , or if aware of any aspect of it have turned a blind eye due to a lack of understanding of the background of the method or a disinterest in the findings of Quantum Physics . |
| 12 | I get the feeling he 's turned a blind eye too often . |
| 13 | The Waco sheriff habitually turned a blind eye to Koresh 's activities . |
| 14 | The points were made that parking there can not be dangerous as it is permitted during part of the year , and that the authorities seem to have turned a blind eye to cars parked outside the church during services . |
| 15 | For years , the authorities have turned a blind eye to the slaughter , maintaining that it was a quaint custom which would eventually die out . |
| 16 | The plaintiff must show that the defendant has turned a blind eye to truth in order to advance an ulterior object . |
| 17 | Some other forces throughout the region , if they even thought about it , appear to have turned a blind eye . |
| 18 | The same people who had turned a blind eye as they passed Clary in their snooty fashion , would regard this esteemed gentleman with admiration , perceiving Clarence , as a high-class citizen of Chichester . |
| 19 | The national populous actually turned a blind eye to atrocities that were happening with human beings . |
| 20 | I could have turned a blind eye , but to grab it and to throw it to the hounds I think was absolutely abysmal . |
| 21 | Sir John — who lives in Denham , Bucks — recently returned from Poland where , ironically , he played a blind man for a new film . |
| 22 | Such people were either doctors of high status who knew the individual personally , or someone on the selection panel with particular knowledge of or interest in disability ; for example , a person interviewing a blind candidate had had a visually impaired son . |
| 23 | Naturally , father knew , but turned a blind eye . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And turned a blind eye to the sinking S** . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | turned a blind eye to fibre optics , |