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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I was very shy but his mischievous grin put me at my ease and we strolled along behind Sally and her beau .
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Margarett took a beau to their apartment for dinner and scandalized her old friends by visibly holding his hand.
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Marjorie brought a beau to Prides, and Margarett flirted with him, even, Betty thought, took him to bed.
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She'd arrived in the sidecar of Miss Brahms's current beau and her coiffure had suffered terrible punishment as a result.