I. interjection
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dear friend (= a friend who is very important to you )
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I’d like you to meet a dear friend of mine.
dear departed
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his dear departed wife
oh, God/oh, dear etc
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Oh, God, I forgot all about it!
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Dear Madam
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It is a house of harmony to my hand. Dear madam !
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One was considerably shorter than the other. Dear Madam , Since our extraordinary conversation I have thought of nothing else.
Dear Sir/Sirs
Elementary, my dear Watson.
close/dear to sb's heart
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His latest challenge is on a smaller scale, but it's much closer to his heart .
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I hold you near, close to my heart , There's so much for me to give, Where to begin?
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It is one that lies close to the heart of any study of the interaction of religion and society.
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One subject is obviously dear to Schofield's heart - the captaincy of Great Britain and Leeds.
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Other songs: Include Stainsby Girls, inspired by a Middlesbrough school close to his heart .
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The electrification of the network, a topic close to Lenin's heart , was discussed in the pages of Gudok.
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The President would go to Williamsburg, Virginia, a place close to his heart .
cost sb dear/dearly
hold sth/sb dear
my dear/darling/love etc
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Anabelle, my dear, you must try some.
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Hence my love for film and my desire to make films as a director and... actor.
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Oh, and give this bottle of Krug with my love to Charity when you see her.
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The measure of my outrage and anger was the measure of my love for you.
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Then, my dear Summerlee, it is that most wonderful of devices: a perpetual motion machine!
old boy/my dear boy
sb's nearest and dearest
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I don't deal, not for anybody, not for my nearest and dearest.
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It will ensure that the memory of your wedding day will remain uppermost in the minds of your nearest and dearest.
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Novels may have changed, but dropping hints about your will remains a sure-fire way to annoy your nearest and dearest.
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Or heard yourself screaming in a high pitch while arguing fruitlessly with your nearest and dearest?
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Sentimental visits home were punctuated by heated and bitter political arguments with my nearest and dearest.
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She had come to this, to a limp white heap who had forgotten the names of her nearest and dearest.
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Those whose nearest and dearest suffer hearing loss are offered very little assistance to meet the situation!
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Which I most certainly am not, as nearest and dearest, and gangs of so-called friends will confirm.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
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The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late.
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They were two old dears and good fun, but this one... well!
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This week one old dear ignored her relatives and left £25,000 to her tortoise.
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We were having tea at the same hotel when Mrs Harvey came in, with another old dear .
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One old dear was doing her knitting.
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Or perhaps the two old dears together.
poor
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I called on Janet Dare. Poor dear !
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When I married Martin, he paid off all my debts, poor dear , and bought me a new winter coat.
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The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late.
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Miss Selene's the housekeeper now, poor dear .
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You poor little dear - my heart goes out to you, waiting all this time.
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The most interesting fact revealed about Norma is that the poor dear is obviously deranged.
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Daddy fell from grace, poor dear .
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They knew their own taste wouldn't do, poor dears , but they weren't quite sure what would.
■ VERB
cost
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It was a study in how not to do something and it cost Chirac dear .
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In part two: Let down ... the mis-kick that cost Swindon dear .
hold
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Let me state a couple of fundamental principles that we hold dear .
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It was a private charm, something about her to hold dear .
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Those who hold the royal family dear could hardly wait for her downfall.
say
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That, my dear , she said , is why you can't look at her.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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What's your name, dear ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Make me some cheese on toast, there's a dear .
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Make up your mind to please your lord, my dear .
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My dear , I don't in the least want to hurry you but I think you should go.
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Oh, Charles dear , this is an honour you so richly deserve.
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Sophie dear , you do manage to look so very striking with so little in the way of decoration!
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They were two old dears and good fun, but this one... well!
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We were having tea at the same hotel when Mrs Harvey came in, with another old dear .
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You've not hurt your head, have you, my dear ?
III. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
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He was so quick, so dear , so light.
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Was she also to be forbidden to see all others, even her sisters so dear to her?
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Going a man down cost the visitors so dear .
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S., the beacon of the west, the school we love so dear .
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It effectively conjured up the mixture of religion, fighting prowess and romanticism which the Legion held so dear .
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That would get back at them for their currency chicanery which cost us so dear .
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In this way the sports pervert the very femininity they hold so dear .
very
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I remember two aunts and an uncle, all very dear to me, dying within a few months.
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Giant tubeworms and clams were premium items, coveted by all of the science party and very dear .
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The list included two acquaintances and one very dear friend of mine.
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I have known her four years and she is a very dear friend of mine.
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He was a little boy called Thomas Isaac, who must have been very dear to his poor parents.
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I have done the first ... Very dear Siegfried.
■ NOUN
boy
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John's face, the dear boy .
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I do not need it and will set it aside for you, my dear boy , to complete your studies.
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It is all very agreeable but please, my dear boy , don't allow yourself to take it seriously.
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The servants did not want to offend their young master, and Mrs Reed could see no fault in her dear boy .
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I must have unnerved you, dear boy .
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Perish the thought, dear boy .
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You are always so impatient, my dear boy .
brother
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I said that without my dear brother I had little care where I was, and no one I wished to speak to.
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Your dear brother left quite a few problems behind when he failed to take that corner.
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Neither, hopefully, will my dear brother .
child
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To me, dear child , you confided your secret.
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I know that my happiness in this world depends on the good and noble character of my dear children .
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Meantime it gives us great consolation to know that you and our dear children are well.
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My dear child , Richard Talbot would never have left his widow alone.
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I am driven to seek the man who sired that dear child .
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One of my many dear children earned himself a creditable degree in environmental sciences a couple of years ago.
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The Forsaken Merman came to mind: Come, dear children , let us away, he advised his sad family.
father
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She would see her dear father again, and have a cousin of the same age to play with.
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I am the one who left my dear father and brought our children to the Pretty Country.
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My dear Father , you were mentioning lunch?
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I prayed a little and wept for my dear father , and for myself, my unhappy passion.
fellow
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But now, my dear fellows , let's just think about this a moment, shall we?
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You say the secretary merely helped her to get away, my dear fellow ?
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Think of Cleary, the dear fellow , and Pindi and ... I could go on.
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My dear fellow , why look so hard?
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Otherwise, my dear fellow , you will soon be of no use to wife, man nor beast.
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You see, my dear fellow , we cam-we literally camp.
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Dada, dear fellow , was happy.
friend
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A few days later Modigliani set him straight: My dear Friend , You're a fathead who doesn't understand a joke.
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Him having so many dear friends and everything.
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By her patience and charity she eventually overcame opposition and became the advisor and dearest friend of the whole household.
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Well then, my dear friend , so what's all this gossip in the village about visions of Our Blessed Lady?
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Here a dear friend struck dead by a ball through the head or heart!
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He was a dear friend to many and will be greatly and sadly missed.
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Had she been a man, his dear friend Aspasia could have filled the bill.
girl
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My dear girl , it's a small fortune!
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My dear girl , in spite of my years, I am a man of the modern age.
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If Rainbow won't entertain these dear girls , then maybe I should.
heart
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He stole your dear heart away with his lies.
lady
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So forget all about vampires, dear ladies .
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Whatever will the dear lady think of you?
life
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This wasn't easy either, because she was spooked and was clinging for dear life to the poor kid's hair.
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The girl shut her eyes and gripped back for dear life .
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The playing throughout the evening was truly superb, every instrumentalist bowing and blowing and thumping as though for dear life .
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It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan.
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Nora had seen him first and was already running far dear life , not caring about her bag or the bicycle.
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They often looked very strained to Anna, as if they were holding on to their loyalty for dear life .
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With difficulty, he made his way towards her, Charlotte clinging to him for dear life .
love
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My dearest love to all of you.
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I wish you were here, my dearest love .
sir
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The pity is that you married this lady, dear sir .
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My dear sir , we are Hoosiers, not Indianans.
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My dear sir , you must credit me with the wits of an orangutan.
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But, my dear sirs , when peace does come, you may call on me for anything.
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Think of that, dear sir .
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Have no fear, my dear sir .
sister
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Both her dear sisters lay there in the basin, cruelly murdered, and cut in pieces.
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A couple of weeks ago a dear sister was helping a sick brother in our fellowship, by doing his washing.
son
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Make Mrs. Jervis, my dear son , as happy as you can.
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Her dear son Aeneas was all but ruined, she said.
wife
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I thought about my dear wife , and for a short time I felt better.
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My dear wife has joined me.
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I returned to our room and lay on the bed next to my dear wife .
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We send you and your dear wife best wishes for the New Year.
wish
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Her dearest wish was to live another couple of years and see Neil Kinnock as prime minister.
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He had two small children, and it was Miss Miggs's dearest wish to see them.
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If, as you say, your sister will come and bring Oreste then surely you have achieved your dearest wish ?
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She was an only child, and well aware that her father's dearest wish was to have grandsons.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Dear Madam
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It is a house of harmony to my hand. Dear madam !
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One was considerably shorter than the other. Dear Madam , Since our extraordinary conversation I have thought of nothing else.
Dear Sir/Sirs
close/dear to sb's heart
▪
His latest challenge is on a smaller scale, but it's much closer to his heart .
▪
I hold you near, close to my heart , There's so much for me to give, Where to begin?
▪
It is one that lies close to the heart of any study of the interaction of religion and society.
▪
One subject is obviously dear to Schofield's heart - the captaincy of Great Britain and Leeds.
▪
Other songs: Include Stainsby Girls, inspired by a Middlesbrough school close to his heart .
▪
The electrification of the network, a topic close to Lenin's heart , was discussed in the pages of Gudok.
▪
The President would go to Williamsburg, Virginia, a place close to his heart .
cost sb dear/dearly
hold sth/sb dear
my dear/darling/love etc
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Anabelle, my dear, you must try some.
▪
Hence my love for film and my desire to make films as a director and... actor.
▪
Oh, and give this bottle of Krug with my love to Charity when you see her.
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The measure of my outrage and anger was the measure of my love for you.
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Then, my dear Summerlee, it is that most wonderful of devices: a perpetual motion machine!
old boy/my dear boy
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mark had become a dear friend.
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No, you can't have an ice-cream - they're too dear .
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The blue jacket is slightly dearer, but it's much better material.
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Those strawberries look a bit dear .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Congratulations to you my dear brother on all your fine accomplishments in school.
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Nina had had everything in the palm of her hand and now she had given Joe back to his dear little wife.
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No family, he knew, had not suffered the bereavement or tragic maiming of some one near and dear .
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Now Lizzy had taken all that her grandmother held dear and dragged it through the dirt.
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Please pray for me in this, my dearest Cynthia.
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That's a hundred more than dear old David Beckham gets from his Ferrari 550.
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That was how she felt - as though those dear supporting figures of her childhood were once again hovering over her.
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The pity is that you married this lady, dear sir.