| As the count went on, Liberal guests buttonholed journalists to ask: Will Sophie Mirabella go down in Indi? |
| He buttonholed me by the shops and gave me the story of his life. |
| He produces a photograph of the prime minister, Matteo Renzi, being buttonholed by four camera teams, three of them from rival RAI channels. |
| He was really getting desperate when, eventually, he started thinking clearly and buttonholed the mother of the doll owner at playschool. |
| 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. |
