Example sentences of "[verb] a black eye " in BNC.

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1 Feeling in one of the pockets I found a black eye patch for added colour and realised that my crew were endorsing the senior officer 's joke about piracy in the Channel .
2 Now when I say a black eye I mean one that actually looks blue-black and is quite swollen .
3 WPc Clark sustained a black eye .
4 It also has a black eye stripe and one at the rear .
5 It also has a black eye stripe .
6 It also has a black eye stripe and a false eye spot near the tail .
7 For his pains he received a black eye , a bloodied nose , a split lip , two skinned knees , several bruised ribs and four strokes of the cane on each hand for fighting on school premises .
8 The 50-year-old child killer suffered a black eye , bruises and minor cuts as she sat down for a meal at Cookham Wood jail in Kent .
9 Teesside Crown Court heard he suffered a black eye and cuts in the first attack .
10 and this that and the other but people must have heard what went on and and you know the next morning they 'd see a black eye and just carry out a normal conversation as though
11 ‘ Why have you got a black eye ? ’ the child asked , a moment later .
12 ‘ And he 's got a black eye . ’
13 You 've got a black eye . ’
14 clip of the ear , nothing like that , but if if you 'd got a black eye .
15 Yeah , you cheeky little monkey , oh what you mean here he 's got a black eye ?
16 One day , when Sam found her weeping in a corner nursing a black eye , he told her she had got to stop .
17 And quite a lot of the adults will try and treat a black eye .
18 You got a black eye ?
19 When we 're doing first aid incidents erm the standard thing we 're doing for adults when they 're doing a first aid exam is we 'll give present them with a casualty with perhaps a cut hand or something like that and they 'll actually have a black eye .
20 Sheila alleged that she was dazed for three days following the attack , suffering a black eye and a cut on her forehead .
21 Limpar , sporting a black eye after a clash with Liverpool 's Steve McManaman and a dislodged tooth after another facial injury against Norway , is convinced that Norway wo n't be the next Scandinavian side to embarrass England .
22 But the experienced midfielder will ignore a black eye and damaged cheekbone to battle on at Brighton tomorrow .
23 ‘ How wonderful to have a black eye for love ! ’
24 And , since you asked , she once went for a policeman with her stilettoes as he tried to bundle a black man into a car outside a dance hall on the bottom of the Tottenham Court Road ( derogatory remarks in that department were still more likely to earn a black eye than a black look in The Bar ) .
25 He had a black eye and there was a great dark bruise down one side of his face .
26 Born in Aberdeen , he got on well with Colquhoun and MacBryde , was physically the smallest of all Minton 's boyfriends , but also the most aggressive ; after his periods of leave Minton often had a black eye .
27 He had a black eye and he was limping .
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