He held her to him as if she was the most precious thing in the world.

He was looking at her as if she were the most precious thing in the world.

Life was the most precious thing in the world to him.

With death so close, precious things could not be kept.

It had brought him the most precious thing in his life.

And so his fear for her became a precious thing.

They think of their normal lives and relationship as precious things.

Of the many other precious things in their mountain they knew little or nothing.

It was the most precious thing she had except her brother.

I did it, as you see, and got the precious thing.