adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hold...personally responsible
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If anything happens to her, I’ll hold you personally responsible .
personally recommend
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Are there any hair colouring products you can personally recommend?
speaking personally
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Speaking personally, yes, this is a worry.
take sb/sth seriously/badly/personally etc
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I was joking, but he took me seriously.
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Ben took the news very badly.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
liable
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However, the members will be personally liable to the company to the full extent for the debts of the company.
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The initiative would make corporate officers and directors personally liable to pay court-ordered judgments.
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As Turbosoft were not a limited liability company, the proprietors are personally liable for the losses and could be made bankrupt.
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Here, as the name suggests, the members remain personally liable to meet the obligations of the company.
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In such circumstances councillors and officials can be sanctioned and made personally liable for misappropriated funds.
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Directors of limited companies are not personally liable for their companies' debts unless you get a guarantee from them.
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The mortgage made Mrs. Jones personally liable , as guarantor, to pay the £1,000.
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As agent for the owner he was not personally liable under the Act.
responsible
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We are, each of us, personally responsible for damaging our environment.
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Most systems have an executive cabinet, with each member directly and personally responsible for some major area of administration.
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She would have been held personally responsible and would almost certainly have fallen from office.
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Did this make me personally responsible for more deaths?
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Like the sole trader, the partners are personally responsible for paying off any debts the shop may incur.
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Now I was not personally responsible for that.
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He is held personally responsible for complying with the many rules and regulations that govern its use.
■ VERB
become
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They can become personally involved in any of three ways.
deliver
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I would like you, please, to take back and deliver personally a little present from me to cheer her up.
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Risking his displeasure, Lydia says she will personally deliver them to his wife after the marriage.
feel
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I personally felt that the characters were very stereo-typed and extremely predictable.
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Make every person feel personally significant. 2.
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I personally feel very drawn to the character of George, although he has his flaws.
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Female speaker I personally feel very disappointed with the sentence.
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By not feeling personally hurt or professionally inadequate when matters get worse despite one's best efforts.
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With Hurley's indifference to security, Coleman felt personally at risk.
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I personally feel that this decline in confidence is both healthy and realistic.
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I personally feel it's a shame that certain manufacturers are making amps to please thrash metallers only.
hold
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She would have been held personally responsible and would almost certainly have fallen from office.
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He is held personally responsible for complying with the many rules and regulations that govern its use.
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He was personally held responsible for the failures of his economic stewardship.
intervene
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In 1859 the tsar intervened personally to prevent church leaders from consigning Belliustin to a monastery in the White Sea.
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One has to be grateful to him for intervening personally .
involve
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Yet when we are involved personally we are forced to acknowledge their existence and to try to understand them.
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All hospitals held induction courses but few of the consultants were personally involved .
know
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Hayman would be unlikely to choose anyone known personally to his prey.
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These models need not be people we know personally .
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During the planting years, I have known personally most of the tree-farmers involved.
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Every pupil is known personally , we have our own identity with staff.
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A standard rumour was that some one the story-teller knew personally had been hitching a lift one dark night.
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Not that he personally knew what it was.
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The number of people whom they knew personally in Berlin could have been counted on the fingers of one hand.
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None of them he knew personally , and most were completing their war service.
like
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So would they personally like to watch more about them?
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They would like to do something for Jim, and the president personally likes him.
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In Darcy's Utopia there will be elections, but people will be expected merely to vote for people they personally like .
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But we were about to embarrass one of the preeminent members of the law school faculty-a man I personally liked .
serve
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A witness summons should be served personally and the witness offered a reasonable sum of money to cover his travel expenses.
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There was regrettable delay in serving it and it should have been served personally on Mr. Butler in prison.
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Copies must be served personally on all parties to the proceedings.
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It was personally served on the president at the Lugano address by an agent of the plaintiffs.
speak
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And, also speaking personally , I agree with your view.
think
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I personally think he liked Cambridge University so much he bought it.
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I think personally that this is a nonissue.
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The steam tank is another device that I personally think every Empire army should have.
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I personally think this is as idiotic as waving a bunsen burner around while having a row.
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I personally think we can't hang on to the whole of Jerusalem.
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I personally think the strength bonus their weapon gives more than compensates for their lack of a shield.
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I personally think this is slightly low, especially as the game is so playable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Personally speaking, I think it's a great name for a cigarette.
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Personally , I don't care how it gets done, as long as it's done quickly.
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Personally , I don't care how you do it.
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Personally , I think it's a crazy idea.
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I don't know him personally , but I've heard a lot about him.
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I was personally asked by the governor to run for office.
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It's best to write about things you have experienced personally .
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Most of our customers like French wine, though I personally prefer Californian.
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The Commander in Chief visited the island personally , and took steps toward strengthening the defense facilities and fortification.
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The President wrote to us personally to thank us for our hard work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Everyone has the right to say no, even your subordinate, so don't take it personally .
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He personally oversaw and, if necessary, modified the agenda for meetings.
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He had personally recruited the antique dealer.
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I intend to experiment with it personally .
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Please encourage class members to lobby their local councils about cuts in classes, either personally or by petition.
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Why did his cousin sound so personally affronted?
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With Zenlike calm, they absorb the hostility often leveled at them personally , as representatives of the technological elite.