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Discover LudwigThe phrase "it so dear" can be used in certain contexts to convey something being held in high regard or valued deeply
It is not a complete sentence but can be used as a phrase within a sentence. Examples: - I couldn't resist buying that painting; it was just so dear to me. - My grandmother used to make this recipe, it's so dear to our family. - She looked at the old photo with tears in her eyes, it was a picture of her parents on their wedding day, it was so dear to her.
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I still remember being read the story by my mother and father, who grew up in the late '20s and '30s and held it so dear for so long that they bought a copy for my first son when he was a child, 20-some years ago.
Cox offered £100 (about £5,600 in today's money), but "poor as he was, and considerably in debt, Russell refused to part with it, so dear to him was that which he knew to be the sacred relic of his great ancestor".
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Srinivasan also points out that the developed world rather naively expected the globalization of technology to automatically promote the liberal and democratic values it held so dear.
It is so dear to me.
It was so dear to his heart.
It's something so dear to him".
As Lassnig puts it, while miming her favourite activities of skiing and biking: "I just don't feel my life has nearly ended … I know it's art so dear that keeps me young and clear".
He would make dinner for me and we would sit and watch this station that played old black and white movies at night, and it was just so dear and sweet.
Pitches from €58 a night for a family of four, rooms for up to four from €90 a night, all including activities and spa, hvidbjergstrand.com Gordon Hargrave Taking in the sights on a kayak from the water is much more relaxing than using the busy roads, and it's not so dear.
"We have to live off drums, we cannot get a bulk buy because it is just so dear," he said.
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised.
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