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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A shameful flock formed round the padre .
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Approaching the car I was driving, he reproved me, saying that a padre ought to know better.
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For those who liked to go to church there were padres of several denominations and candles and a camp-built altar.
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The padre take the tongue and pop!
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The padre , Horrocks, came and stood with them.
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The padres, to explain all this, invented two myths of their own.
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We had some very good padres in the service.