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  • Richard Heffer, in a white polo-necked sweater, was in the title role, Michael Wood (the historian) was a passionately solicitous Horatio, and Diana Quick was a gibbering, sex-crazed Ophelia with a smear of bright red lipstick.

    David William obituary 2010

  • Harriet, despite her thick polo-necked sweater and slacks, shivered, to be warmed by the sight of the iron gates of Friso's house, their gilded spear-headed tops shining in the sun, and standing invitingly open.

    Politics 101 2010

  • In the audience that awaits them there's a man wearing a polo-necked shirt reading "Gerry Love sings like an angel," a reference to one of the men who is picking up his instrument and approaching the microphone.

    Growing old peacefully 2010

  • Silvestri, a law unto himself, was prone to wear a black suit and a black polo-necked sweater.

    TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009

  • “A polo-necked young chap agonizingly deliberates what message to write on his chocolate whilst all around him, the world waits his decision trapped in a silent frozen time loop.”

    No Fat Clips!!! : Thorntons: Stuck 2007

  • For years and years he toiled away making a load of films that only polo-necked film studies morons paid to go and see, and then – out of nowhere – he discovered that dressing up as a pirate, pretending to be Keith Richards and not really doing much more than a succession of comedy double takes would make him the biggest movie star on the planet.

    Johnny Depp To Make Crazy Poisoned Russian Spy Flick? 2006

  • By rights, a plain red polo-necked sweater had no business being as alluring as satin and lace lingerie, but onSophie it was.

    Mistress On Demand Cox, Maggie 2005

  • He had on an immaculate velvet jacket, trimmed with satin, and a white silk polo-necked shirt.

    Above Suspicion Lynda La Plante 2004

  • He had on an immaculate velvet jacket, trimmed with satin, and a white silk polo-necked shirt.

    Above Suspicion Lynda La Plante 2004

  • CAPE TOWN - Multi-racial democracy has blown away decades of stiff tradition in South Africa's 110-year-old parliament, where suits and ties have given way to polo-necked jerseys and caftans.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

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