‘his master must have paid dearly for such a magnificent beast’
‘The taxpayer has already paid dearly for the construction of these houses, which cost £78,000 each in 1984, he said.’
‘In other words you are paying dearly to maintain a loan while your ability to clear the debt is falling each year.’
‘But, I made her pay dearly for her purchases - $227 for four yearbooks and an old diploma and almost $150 for a collection of papers and photographs.’
‘Who would pay dearly to cross the ocean to teach middle-school math in one of Southern California's lowest-performing school districts?’
‘A country pays and pays dearly for the development of its populace.’
‘Because developers pay dearly to lease state-owned land for periods of years, there is great pressure to complete revenue-generating structures quickly.’
‘And without toilets, they had to queue for hours and pay dearly for the privilege of using the smelly loo of some shopkeeper or building watchman who saw a profit in nature's most basic need.’
‘However Irish viewers have to pay dearly for them.’
‘Why is it that record companies pay dearly for radio play and fight Internet play?’
‘In fact, the vision requires vast sectors of society to pay dearly, and from their own pockets.’
1.1Suffer for a misdemeanour or failure.
‘they paid dearly for wasting goalscoring opportunities’
‘And over 100,000 Americans have paid dearly for this failure.’
‘In this case, they haven't, and now they're paying dearly for their candour.’
‘This was probably a mistake for which they would pay dearly.’
‘They make false promises, fool themselves and people around them, and more often than not, pay dearly later.’
‘This period of their game was marked by poor passing and indifferent play for which they would later pay dearly.’
‘It is a grim irony lost on them, for which they will pay dearly in elections to come.’
‘It is a betrayal of civilised values and we shall pay dearly for it.’
‘However, they made poor use of a lot of scoring chances for which they were to pay dearly later in the game.’
‘In both cases, they must pay dearly for their deeds.’
‘The only condition is that the hapless Alfred must pay dearly for rejecting her many years before.’
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