(1) It was freezing out there even in his buttoned-up overcoat.

(2) Is the buttoned-up Mr Smith capable of that?

(3) I flashback to Scholz, buttoned-up warm against the cold, his collar clean, his tie neat.

(4) Seemingly otherwise normal, perfectly mannered, even buttoned-up executives can slurp, lick their lips or leave grubby plasticware around the office.

(5) We usually see Putin and Medvedev buttoned-up and I wanted to show them as fashionable, relaxed guys who follow trends and have an active way of life.

(6) At a central office, his buttoned-up assistant Maria (a fan of 'melodic death metal') leads us to him.

(7) The nation which was once regarded as a buttoned-up bunch of repressives in bowler hats is now a land of incontinent alcoholics.

(8) Though Jamal, his character in Slumdog, is quite buttoned-up and serious, Patel bursts into the room on a veritable wave of energy.

(9) We think of it as a time of buttoned-up prudery and repression — and it was — but loosen the corset of 1860s England and out spills the kink.

(10) When it comes to raw emotion, the once buttoned-up Brits are now happy to shed tears quite openly.

(11) For young Japanese entrepreneurs, " Son-san" was more than just an adversary to Japan's buttoned-up corporate world; he was the messiah for a new age.

(12) Well, I think we all know what Ellen and Portia do: at night they lie next to each other in tightly buttoned-up pyjamas reading books about feminism, hairily and humourlessly.

(13) My father seemed to transform each Monday, from a boisterous, opinionated cook to a more cautious, buttoned-up office manager.

(14) Government jobs, nightclubs, golf courses, and beaches draw an eccentric mix of pierced hipsters and buttoned-up conservatives to the seaside town of Blackpool in England's Lancashire county.