Example sentences of "would n't [be] seen " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | ‘ Many Americans who drive luxury European imports simply would n't be seen in a Cadillac or Lincoln . ’ |
3 | ‘ 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 . |
4 | 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 ’ . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Where there is coverage of such systems as potential IT-based contributors to improved corporate strategy , the reference will be to systems that are not normally the province of librarians and information scientists ( such as financial market systems , credit-rating services ) ; or it will be to videotex-based systems which most librarians and information scientists would n't be seen dead using ! ( cf. Prestel ) . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ I would n't be seen at that beast 's house . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | This is airport reading with an impeccable historical pedigree , for those who would n't be seen dead browsing in John Menzies . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | " I would n't be seen dead on that bridge . " |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Knew a fellow somewhere in Evy that would n't be seen dead holding a black Polled cattle , so er he er came along to me with er farmer 's weekly , and a black Polled cow on it , and gave me a photograph of this man . |
17 | ‘ One or two men would n't be seen . |
18 | I would n't be seen dead with you in here was his reply . |
19 | ‘ There are people who say they would n't be seen dead on of these things , but after one ride they 're queuing up . |
20 | I would n't be seen dead with him |