close one's eyes vs exclude

close one's eyes

verb
  • To ignore something. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see close, one's, eyes. 

  • To sleep. 

exclude

verb
  • To omit from consideration. 

  • To expel; to put out. 

  • To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out. 

  • To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid. 

  • To eliminate from diagnostic consideration. 

How often have the words close one's eyes and exclude occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )