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firmly
1. ” He took her firmly by the wrist and gently pulled her out of the way of her giggling companions
2. Vinnie pushed the glasses back firmly onto his nose and shifted his center of gravity back a bit
3. ’ He repeated, before turning and letting himself out, yanking the door closed firmly behind him
4. ’ I told myself firmly
5. He held himself firmly, although a little shrunken now and but
6. strongly and firmly for one of her advancing years and still had that bright green gaze
7. ’ I answered firmly, but she looks across at me as though assessing how true my statement might be
8. ’ Stephen said gently but firmly as he finishes his coffee
9. With his hand held firmly in her soft, white and cool
10. Ricci composes himself, takes Ahmed firmly by the shoulders and looks him directly in the eyes
11. ’ Molly said firmly, relegating me to childhood firmly, as she starts cooking
12. ’ I said, gripping it firmly as I swing my leg over the ivy-covered wooden bar
13. ’ He said, his hand firmly clasping Jacqui’s
14. ’ He said firmly
15. The young man in tears of sadness takes the knife firmly,
16. ‘It’s much better without an audience, don’t you think?’ he asked me a few minutes later, his arms firmly round me
17. A hand pressed firmly in the small of my back
18. ’ She said firmly, ‘Pull yourself together
19. During the beating that I had taken that previous night, the words of Robbie’s boss stuck firmly in my head, words about Crusades and vengeance
20. Robbie stood firmly and squarely in the centre of the room, hands on hips
21. He reaches across the table and takes my hands in his, holding them firmly
22. ’ Henry said firmly
23. Apollo slides down the corner of his cell with his palms pressed firmly against his ears, trying to stifle the girl's cries
24. When she got back up she held the hatchway rail much more firmly
25. Hair - long, tangled, dark, hardly showing the dried blood staining it - wafted across the nearside rail, one moment draping the black-grey smoothness with deep brown tendrils, the next flying back whence it came, its roots firmly attached to the scalp that engendered it
26. With his hand held firmly in her soft, white and cool embrace he let himself be lead to the far corner of the olive grove
27. ’ JJ said, equally firmly
28. ’ JJ said in the end, his finger firmly placed on the page
29. Between them they manhandled the two ruffians to the rubbish store, threw them in and rammed the door shut, using a nearby length of discarded metal bar to jam the door firmly
30. Guards stood at each of the heavy wooden doors giving access to each building, doors which were firmly closed
31. Outstretched, along the firmly padded hood of the
32. He held it firmly in his hand; with his other hand
33. ’ Gilla said firmly
34. no matter how firmly placed the cap is upon the pen,
35. He sang a velvet lullaby as we walked, my cheek pressed firmly into the
36. He’s wearing his usual Gottesman outfit of sensible hosen and a tunic, his belt, complete with pouch where he keeps his stones, firmly in place
37. It is more difficult than I anticipated but I achieve it and by the time Berndt knocks on my cabin door, I have the words firmly in my mind and am just putting the finishing touches to my appearance
38. Press your chin firmly against your chest in a chin lock and place your hands, palms down, facing the opposite way to your legs
39. with the toes at the maximum distance from the head and the chin pressed firmly into the middle of the chest, as in the illustration
40. There came a roar of panic and dread as everyone rushed toward to the bow where it became obvious the hawsers were still firmly attached to the bollards on the jetty
41. The bird is heavy; it settles on my left arm, its claws gripping firmly onto my shirt as I stagger under its weight, the points touching my skin through the fabric
42. 'Thank you', she snapped and slammed the door firmly behind them
43. But her reins are firmly in my grasp and, hauling myself closer to her, I start swimming towards the shore
44. Once outside on the grass I let the door go, surprised to find its own weight and gravity clanged it firmly shut again
45. “You bast…”, was all that she managed to yell at him before one of the suited gentlemen clamped his hand firmly over her mouth and bundled her onto the back seat
46. Terry continued to dazzle on the playing field and without quite remembering why, he stood firmly by his old and battered shin pads, even though he was offered bright shiny new ones nearly every week
47. With one hand holding my wrists, he pins both my arms firmly to the floor and kisses me very thoroughly
48. He marched off but not before he bound the latch securely with the string, trapping me firmly inside
49. He ploughed through the streets followed at some distance by his sister until, with the front door of their modest terraced home shut firmly on the outside world, Danny disappeared into his bedroom to play electronic games
50. Despite his apparently uncaring treatment of her the previous day, Annie still firmly believed that her brother loved her and that he would, in time, learn to engage with the world in a more constructive way now that he was the effective head of the household