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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He entered Chichester Theological College and later became a curate in Lincolnshire.
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He looks and sounds like the second curate in a three-priest parish, and his speciality was killing silently.
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He served briefly as a curate before teaching at St Patrick's seminary at Maynooth.
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It was clear that he was no ordinary curate .
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The curate was troubled by the conflict between his love of biblical study and the chores of the parish.