Example sentences of "be [verb] dead " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd be stoned dead |
| 2 | If I could n't produce a marriage date , and Nigel could n't officially be registered dead without it , perhaps he was n't , because legally he could n't be , and when I got home I 'd find … |
| 3 | I 'd say I 'd not be caught dead in them they were |
| 4 | Although the proceedings are always enlivened by Diana 's presence , no true Lorenzo-goer would ever be caught dead owning up to being in awe of her . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Since I spend most of my working life wearing clothes I would n't normally be seen dead in , it 's one of my life 's real pleasures . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | The serious climbers would not be seen dead with such riff raff . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If you think I 'd be seen dead in that you must be mad . |
| 12 | Mummy , you must be mad if you think I would be seen dead in a yellow frock ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | " I would n't be seen dead on that bridge . " |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ If somebody were fashion conscious when alive , why should they want to be seen dead in something unflattering ? ’ |
| 20 | I would n't be seen dead with you in here was his reply . |
| 21 | ‘ There are people who say they would n't be seen dead on of these things , but after one ride they 're queuing up . |
| 22 | At the same time , no power-dressed working woman would be seen dead without her higher heeled shoes — both to stamp on the toes of the men as she stepped up the corporate ladder and to balance her wide , padded shoulders . |
| 23 | I would n't be seen dead with him |
| 24 | One of the corpses was that of a local youth , the other that of an English girl , Gail Benson , who had come to the West Indies as the slavish lover of an American Negro , Hakim Jamal , ‘ God ’ to his friends , who was eventually to be shot dead in Boston . |
| 25 | And , although the Supreme Court upheld testing of customs agents , a few members of the bench doubted that a drug-imbibing agent would be deterred by a test if he was not already fearful , as one put it , that he ‘ may be shot dead in unequal combat with unimpaired smugglers . ’ |
| 26 | Catholics threw petrol bombs , provoking the British Commander to warn television audiences that future petrol bombers would be shot dead . |
| 27 | Shorshan was the fourth Jewish settler to be shot dead by gunmen since the start of the Middle East peace talks in October 1991 . |
| 28 | In this sketch , Ken was supposed to be shot dead . |
| 29 | ‘ I told them my brother could be lying dead somewhere and they said they did n't care and that I was mucking them about , ’ said 18-year-old Joanne , of Stoneleigh , Surrey , yesterday . |
| 30 | She might be lying dead in a ditch . ’ |