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He was very firmly based on her beloved father.

I was very firmly in the role of producer, so none of that was going to come my way.

But they were all part of a particular literary tradition that was very firmly established long before I started my acting career.

And I was very firmly a writer: it never occurred to me that I would ever edit any bit of the Guardian, let alone be let loose on the whole thing.

Both Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom are unashamed Christians; Stephen Crabb might this week be a slightly more ashamed Christian after he was caught sexting a campaign worker, but until that story broke he was very firmly counted among the Christians in the party and a paid-up member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship.

Yesterday Collins, whose wife, Orianne, gave birth to his fourth child earlier this year, said he was furious about the stunt".I took part in the programme, as I was very firmly led to believe it was part of a public service programme that would be going around schools and colleges in a bid to stem child abduction and abuse".

My feet are very firmly on the ground.

I think the ball is very firmly in their court.

The emphasis here is very firmly on the skiing.

"Until I discovered that the doors were very firmly bolted and locked and barred.

To be clear, I myself am very firmly in this second camp.