Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [not/n't] [be] seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , now I must n't be seen to be indicating in any way that er you do n't have to bother with it all , because they too put all out some excellent er booklets , brochures I 've got two thick pads of them which I 'll let you circulate . |
| 2 | Well you better erm no no no I must n't be seen to encourage that sort of thing . |
| 3 | In the dark I could manoeuvre , hide in the alleys of incomprehension , crouch behind the walls of indifference , know that I existed , and hope because I could n't be seen . |
| 4 | I left Werewolf with a withering look and headed for the edge of the road , cutting back deeper into the trees so I could n't be seen from the farmhouse when I reached the fenced-off field . |
| 5 | ‘ I spend most of my working life wearing clothes I would n't be seen dead in , ’ says Jonathon , seen above , far right , with the rest of the cast of Bread . |
| 6 | I would n't be seen dead in a navy suit and I 'd rather give a peck on the cheek than a mock-male handshake . |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't be seen at that beast 's house . |
| 8 | In ex-army gear I would n't be seen , as long as I kept still , sitting on my hands , pale face buried in a heather clump , but those long heads that rose between rasping bites of coarse grass had twitching noses that never stopped their search for the enemy — a very efficient sort of olfactory radar . |
| 9 | " I would n't be seen dead on that bridge . " |
| 10 | I would n't be seen dead with you in here was his reply . |
| 11 | I would n't be seen dead with him |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't be seen with a megaphone . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't be seen to hinder things without cause . |
| 14 | Now if I was a cadre and I received that I think I would be thinking right erm if I really want to be at the forefront of this that 's the policy that I want to promote erm and if the peasants in my area are not demanding this and not achieving this well we , I , I ca n't be seen not to be going it , I 've got ta go with this . |
| 15 | ‘ And I give you my word that I will not be seen in public again with her . ’ |
| 16 | One of my characters owns a cafe but I wo n't be seen peeling any spuds . ’ |
| 17 | The topmost foliage is taller than me and the growth is so dense I can not be seen from the lawn as I dig into the muddy trench which forms an oasis round the stem . |
| 18 | Case management in rehabilitation work with these clients involves specific ( sometimes called ‘ intense ’ ) components , such as skills training , medication review , assertive outreach , 24 hour coverage , etc. , which may not be seen in other forms of case management . |
| 19 | Secure ground floor windows first and any window which ca n't be seen from the street or which can be reached from a drainpipe or flat roof . |
| 20 | What the X-rays reveal , which can not be seen on the surface , are the soldered joins at the neck , handle and base as well as around the hole for the missing spout . |
| 21 | Mrs Shakespeare can go too , if she likes , but she must not be seen . |
| 22 | It would need only fifty feet either way , and she could not be seen . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , Clare lay off the path in a place where the ground dipped , so she could not be seen . |
| 24 | She wanted to get up and walk away , out of the French doors and over the lawn and behind the hedge , away where she could not be seen . |
| 25 | Pressed against the wall so she could n't be seen , Marie edged her way , very quietly , towards the pill-box . |
| 26 | Although she could n't be seen herself , neither could she see the shed or , more importantly , the exact location of the sniper . |
| 27 | ‘ We would bring you where you could not be seen . |
| 28 | According to this version , the turn towards services — the shift in the balance of employment from manufacturing to services — is the direction in which all the major industrial economies are moving and in itself need not be seen as a problem . |
| 29 | Smile , for even though you ca n't be seen by the other person , if you smile it helps your voice to sound more assertive and friendly . |
| 30 | You 'd go for somewhere where you ca n't be seen . |