From A Bit of a Do, by David Nobbs:

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He was a tall, slim man with cool eyes, handsome in a rather theoretical way, like a drawing of a good-looking man.

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[Re. a cheap suit]

He felt as if it had put him on in a great hurry.

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His face had an immature, unformed look, as if it were waiting for his personality to be delivered.

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[As a smarmy photographer takes wedding pictures]

"Relax!" said Nigel Thick. "Let it all hang out."

Laurence regarded this phrase with extreme distaste. He found it impossible to comply... but he did manage to make a bit of it almost hang out.

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"You can't just say 'but' and walk off. It's unacceptable behaviour both socially and grammatically."

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Aunt Gladys.... had found an artificial pearl in her portion of cake, and Liz had felt that her outrage was almost as much because it wasn't real as because it shouldn't have been there at all.

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Eric's reply suggested that he did indeed, he anticipated no problem, indeed he seemed confident that it would be just the job, thoroughly tickety, and probably boo as well.

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Ted wished he hadn't said "Neville!!!" with three exclamation marks. He knew, really, that there couldn't possibly be anything between Rita and Neville Badger or indeed anybody but especially somebody like Neville Badger which could justify one exclamation mark, let alone three!!