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She turned her attention to the bodyguard, who was unbuttoning his collar.
He threw it on the floor and began unbuttoning Sarah's blouse.
'No matter!' he said, moving towards the chair in which I was sitting and unbuttoning his flies.
"A midterm exam," she said, "in unbuttoning and opening, with an extra credit question later."
Before unbuttoning her blouse, she hesitated once again.
There are some advantages to this unbuttoning.
She began unbuttoning her fitted jacket, then her blouse.
It was not long before he was unbuttoning his trousers, showing himself to me and making me touch him.
Then, reluctantly, I started unbuttoning my fly.
He put the roses down and removed his sweater and she began unbuttoning his shirt.
"Unlike you," he sardonically noted, renewing his unbuttoning.
In France, unbuttoning two buttons is more common, and politicians appear on TV in this style.
Faile began unbuttoning his coat.
Ben's curvy receptionist has a habit of unbuttoning the top buttons of her blouse whenever an attractive male patient shows up.
(cue unbuttoning of seersucker suit and hooking of thumbs beneath red suspenders.)
Martha, unsurprisingly, had watched the unbuttoning of his shirt raptly, and was now tracking the progress of the unwinding bandage with the same held-breath fascination.
Fastening and tucking seemed so much more intimate than unbuttoning and unzipping, as if you were privy to putting the person back together whole, instead of unraveling him.
Even the dog fumbled with its waistcoat until the urchin helped it, unbuttoning the preposterous thing and unveiling another ugly hand tumour clamped to the dog's hairy flesh.
And, see, if I go to that suburban broken-down conapt building - " She reached out, toyed with a button of his shirt; in slow, facile twists she began unbuttoning it.
There was even evidence of this outside the laboratory when some of the patients reported that, "while their left hand was unbuttoning their shirt, the right hand would follow along behind and button it again."
A garden is an idealized version of nature, but that doesn't mean it couldn't stand some unbuttoning, so that it might disclose a few of our less-polite passions as well as nature's own occasional awfulness.
The first is a general unbuttoning of American culture: every institution, from television and the movies to the most respectable magazines and newspapers, is dealing with matters that they never would have dealt with four or five years ago.