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personally

/ˈpɝ.sə.nə.li/ adverb B1
  1. In a personal manner.
  2. In person.
  3. Concerning oneself. · I'm really annoyed with her, personally.
  4. As a person. · I like you personally, but as a colleague you have yet to do well.
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When you have finished, relock both the original and the draft in the desk, and hand them over to me personally to-morrow morning.’
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 62 · B2
Again and again in cases of the most varying sorts—forgery cases, robberies, murders—I have felt the presence of this force, and I have deduced its action in many of those undiscovered crimes in which I have not been personally consulted.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 105 · B2
“Personally I am in agreement with Dr.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 120 · C1
Personally, he was convinced that the murderer had escaped by the window.
The Valley of Fear, p. 50 · C1

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