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What does privately mean?
privately
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Simple sentences
Do you want to speak privately?
Could we meet privately?
He asked to speak to me privately.
Tom asked to speak to me privately.
Can I talk to you privately?
Is there a place we can speak privately?
I'd like to talk with you privately.
I had to stay behind so I could talk to Tom privately.
I need to talk to Tom privately.
Tom wanted to speak to Mary privately.
I want to talk to Tom privately.
We need to talk privately.
I need to talk to you privately.
Movie subtitles
Let's get away from here and talk this over privately.
I would like to talk to you privately.
Privately, I'm convinced that I have some dignity.
Mrs. De Winter sometimes went to him privately.
Also, we've been cautioned, privately, against making any mistakes.
I want to talk to you privately. It's important.
If you allow me to give you a piece of friendly advice, do it now privately. More dignified.
It's quite obvious to me that you were interviewing a patient privately.
If she's privately defended, let me talk to them.
I privately promised him that I would make it my business to see there was room for him.
Could I talk to you privately, commander?
In view of the very grave dangers of a privately run railway, I feel the only solution to the problem is a privately run bus.
Mrs. Wilberforce, major Courtney would like to speak to you privately, if you don't mind.
Well could I speak to you privately please sir?
Well if you knew how important it was, you'd see me privately because if.
Something I do very privately, say a prayer.
After all, when you and I privately think of Tina's origin it's not too surprising that she has shall we say, spirit, freedom?
Could I speak to you privately just a moment?
We're talking privately.
L'd like to talk to the colonel privately.
Let us say it now, privately so that we never have a need to discuss it in public.
I still had a few. privately.
Supposing we settle it tonight. If you brought him privately, we could try out his step in my drawing room.
I want to talk to you very privately.
Let's get away from this gang, talk this over privately.
But, privately, Ms. Carter, I advise you to stay away from Black Island.
May I see you privately, sir?
Even privately.
What you two get up to privately is one thing, but that dad's in restaurants handing out rings. Mum's too good for that!
And it's the most accurate. and the most unique privately-owned clock in the world.
I'm entitled to hear that privately first, Lieutenant.
Privately?
What I privately think mustn't color the mood of this fine safari.
I'll speak with him privately.
News and current affairs
The Nobel laureate economist William Vickrey argued tirelessly in favor of privately financed toll roads.
Schwarzenegger is a Republican, so Democrats privately wish him to fail.
Even back in the 1990's, regulators would privately complain of the difficulty of retaining any staff capable of understanding the rapidly evolving derivatives market.
Frankfurt's airport, though privately owned and engaged in its own international business activities, is also an essential part of Germany's public infrastructure.
Meanwhile, Russia must mobilize its own diplomats to make the case, publicly and privately in all the EU capitals, for greater access to EU markets.
Though the United States and the IMF privately sided with Greece, Germany prevailed, as creditors usually do.
And privatizations should aim at higher sale prices to pay off debt that many (privately) agree is unsustainable.
This is, in fact, what many Americans privately ask Europeans to do.
Until recently, Israeli officials have publicly and privately refused to respond to the Palestinian request for a ceasefire agreement.
Privately, many Chinese might still prefer the former.
Once the system was privately created, the government was able to use it to provide additional services.
Oil, the main engine of growth, is privately controlled.
Outsiders can assist - for example, with ideas for constitutional reform or voting procedures - but this should be done privately and as suggestions, not demands.
The Qattan Center for the Child is a privately funded library - and drama, computer, and youth center - that would grace any British community.
That's why market interest rates on privately held Greek bonds and prices for credit-default swaps indicate that a massive default is coming.
The rest of the Chinese economy is dynamic, decentralized, and privately owned.
In the next business cycle, China's banks will be privately owned for the first time since 1949.
Where facilities were privately owned, it was felt, perhaps not unreasonably, that removing assets would violate China's property-rights law.
Despite a detailed critique of the prosecution's case by two Chinese defense lawyers, the sentence, which had been known privately among officials for several days, was confirmed.
It is time for both countries' leaders to speak privately and directly with each other, with an understanding of the instability that could result from any failure to complete the diplomatic opening that the two sides initiated.
Many Thai military and police officials now privately admit that the insurgency cannot be defeated through security measures.
Privately, however, the US is backing the incumbent, Nouri al-Maliki.