| 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. |
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| But now, as Kurt and I moved tentatively toward where Pam had buttonholed him, Murdoch seemed not only unaccompanied but alone. |
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| He was really getting desperate when, eventually, he started thinking clearly and buttonholed the mother of the doll owner at playschool. |
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| He had consulted female relatives and older women in his village and buttonholed family members in other towns in a quest for leads. |
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| He buttonholed me on the subject of crime, and was a spouting encyclopaedia after your own heart. |
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| He explained that Feinberg had buttonholed him inside, intent on reiterating the importance of context. |
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| As the count went on, Liberal guests buttonholed journalists to ask: Will Sophie Mirabella go down in Indi? |
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| He produces a photograph of the prime minister, Matteo Renzi, being buttonholed by four camera teams, three of them from rival RAI channels. |
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| In 2009, Mumtaz says Singh buttonholed him at a UNESCO conference in Dubai. |
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| A rare guipure form has no net, the design elements being held together by buttonholed bars, and again the excess muslin is cut away. |
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| He buttonholed me by the shops and gave me the story of his life. |
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| Next we buttonholed a ten-year-old boy who just did not understand why he was offered a bottle of beer when all he wanted was an exercise book to do his homework. |
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| Executives know they will be buttonholed in San José, but expect it because they are dealing with issues at the centre of many of their users' lives. |
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| He buttonholed any public figure who could help, harassed the press and infuriated Foreign Office mandarins who regarded the whole affair as an irrelevant nuisance. |
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