| He had consulted female relatives and older women in his village and buttonholed family members in other towns in a quest for leads. |
| He buttonholed me on the subject of crime, and was a spouting encyclopaedia after your own heart. |
| I needn't have worried, because Forrest cut such a jovial and outgoing figure that I briefly wondered if I had buttonholed the wrong man. |
| He was really getting desperate when, eventually, he started thinking clearly and buttonholed the mother of the doll owner at playschool. |
| But now, as Kurt and I moved tentatively toward where Pam had buttonholed him, Murdoch seemed not only unaccompanied but alone. |
| In 2009, Mumtaz says Singh buttonholed him at a UNESCO conference in Dubai. |
