Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] dead " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rat , Badger and Mole would not have been seen dead with The Economist : Mr Toad might have flaunted it unread on the hall table . |
| 2 | The End was somewhere the Rejects would n't have been seen dead , so when I was in my ambitious , conventional mood , that made it more attractive . |
| 3 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 4 | ( These ‘ butler 's pantry ’ sinks are worth a few bob these days , either to the dockland yuppies doing up houses Jack the Ripper would n't have been seen dead in , or to amateur photographers who use them in their darkrooms . |
| 5 | But I did n't go to the altar ; to be honest it was n't for lack of offers , but because they always seemed to come from people I would n't have been caught dead at an altar with . |
| 6 | Even the lawns had been restored , like emerald carpets unrolled before his eyes ; sunblasted trees which might have been thought dead had miraculously clothed themselves with leaves . |