Example sentences of "[pron] would not be seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I would n't be seen at that beast 's house . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | " I would n't be seen dead on that bridge . " |
| 6 | I would n't be seen dead with you in here was his reply . |
| 7 | I would n't be seen dead with him |
| 8 | This is airport reading with an impeccable historical pedigree , for those who would n't be seen dead browsing in John Menzies . |
| 9 | He is the populariser and jack of all trades par excellence , intensely vulnerable to the scorn of the experts , and to people who would n't be seen dead reading the kind of book that is piled high in airport bookshops . |
| 10 | Now she began to treat the shop more as a business than a hobby , and expanded its services by offering home collection to rich women who would not be seen dead in a secondhand shop . |
| 11 | Normally you would n't be seen dead doing a knees bend keeping your back straight , but if you 're getting something off the bottom shelf you wo n't look ridiculous at all . |
| 12 | Whilst working on the drama series A Little Princess with a dozen twelve-to fourteen-year-old girls , I noted that although they were all sweet kids most of them would n't be seen dead without their eyeliner . |
| 13 | The officers believe Elizabeth and Julie had been sunbathing naked on the remote beach , confident they would not be seen . |
| 14 | ‘ There are people who say they would n't be seen dead on of these things , but after one ride they 're queuing up . |
| 15 | From this distance Bourke says he was unable to contact Blake by radio and therefore he would drive to Old Oak Common Lane , park his car and then walk across Old Oak Common with his radio to a point dose to the north side of the prison from where he could re-establish contact , lying down in the grass so that he would not be seen . |
| 16 | He would not be seen to give way easily . |
| 17 | In that time he has sat through more than 10,000 films.But he confesses that he would n't be seen dead in a cinema . |
| 18 | The sergeant flicked up the plastic film and scrutinised the tweed jacket and brown trousers with a faint sneer : he would n't be seen dead wearing such clothes . |
| 19 | Of course , when it came time to write the bill , there were great problems in choosing the exact words to be employed so that it would n't be seen by anyone as a ‘ Euthanasia Bill ’ . |
| 20 | She fixed her bike among some bushes where it would n't be seen from the lane , and then ran along the grass-verge to the gap in the trees where the path began . |
| 21 | He took it by train to Devonshire and walked many miles over the moors with it so that it would not be seen near Baskerville Hall . |