Sentence examples for and then the buttonholing from inspiring English sources

And then the buttonholing began.

Ms. Rich, who had initially been reluctant to support her former husband's application for a pardon because of their bitter divorce, played a crucial role in the pardon campaign, first sending President Clinton an emotional letter on the issue and then buttonholing him at a White House dinner on Dec. 20.

The old elastic band trick (looped over the button, through the buttonhole and then over the button again) is no longer enough.

Lengthy flights and train journeys to the venues, bland corporate hotels, queuing to register and obtain your name badge — and then you're buttonholed by someone trying to sell you cleaning materials.

The multi-layered nuance of Peter Ackroyd and the buttonholing narrative grasp of Stephen King are stirred into the mix.

The editors sent reporters to the pier with orders to buttonhole survivors and then run into the Strand and dictate their notes on one of the telephone lines, which were connected to the newsroom in Times Square.

Oh, and then there's the man who buttonholed me on yesterday's flight over from Gatwick to advertise the virtues of East Grinstead as a potential movie location.

The best thing here is to stitch a spare shirt button to the edge of one of the buttonholes and then you can use it like a normal cuff. 5. Collar The collar will be big and stiff, so cut it off along the collar stand (as marked on the shirt online), then stitch along the edge to stop it fraying.

And then, in February of this year, he buttonholed Mr. La Selva again.

Projects like "My art is counting all the steps I took from here to the gallery and then assigning them corresponding musical notes and then playing them through the buttonholes of the shirt of my dead father".

And when I got home, I cursed that darling dress and sewed all the buttonholes tighter.