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2,946,861 total words in matching documents (64.24% of corpus)

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Scottish Parliament: Committees: Audit: Official Reports: Meeting 8, 1999 Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 10,830 3 0.28

... have been dealt with. Recently, I read a statement from a big company in Scotland, British Energy, which said: "We have ...
... is just one example, but it is typical of what a lot of big firms will have done. Without wishing to argue with the ...
... payroll and agricultural subsidies. Those are the big pieces of computing that sit at the heart of many of the ...
Evie Barron, Charles 11,528 3 0.26

... I jist imagined a’ the ashes mixed up thegether in a great big ashpan underneath the furnace. It never occurred to me ...
... But fan you think o’t, we’ve a’ been peyin’ a great big fortune in taxes for wir ain ex-plor-a-tions an’ ...
... be seein’ you there, een o’ these days, Toots? That’s the big question, eh? I wonder if they would have operated on me ...
Interview with Rev. John G. Sinclair for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 13,717 3 0.22

... to have, F1189: Mmhm. M1194: they're not too big, and they're //easily accommodated.// F1189: ...
... bookcase just inside the front door which has all the big books, F1189: Right, uh-huh. M1194: like the ...
... of the Friends of the Hocken Collections, that's the big //research library, down there.// F1189: //Oh yes, ...
BBC Voices Recording: Portree N/A Audio 14,267 3 0.21

... Participate in a game? I'm thinking maybe that's too big a M1008: //A bit formal for that.// M1055: //Too ...
... a gentleman ehm in the west of Skye who lives in a, a big building eh ehma big edifice, ehm and he at one point ...
... in the west of Skye who lives in a, a big building eh ehma big edifice, ehm and he at one point was trying to sell a ...
Interview with Stan Kirkpatrick, Part 2, for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 15,282 3 0.20

... meat compa-, frozen meat company. //This was the big shipment of meat overseas.// F1189: //Mm.// M1191: ...
... good from that point of view.// F1189: Some very big erm Scottish issues, for example in the last ten years ...
... a cinema, F1189: Mm. M1191: but it's not the big Gaumont //down the road, it's the [inaudible] it's the ...
Scottish Parliament: Committees: Health and Community Care: Official Reports: Meeting 1, 2001 Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 17,433 3 0.17

... at me—they do not need to. Do you accept that there is a big difference between a sought-out, bought product, such as a ...
... that would not be outlawed by the bill. That suggests a big loophole. What is your view on that? Malcolm Chisholm: I ...
... around the legislation and I am concerned that this is a big area of legislation that is subject to regulation in which ...
Dipper: 04 - The Hedgehog Begg, Dr James A Audio 167 2 11.98

... gies them that meddle a guid wheen mair flegs, Than ony big bull wi its horns. He keeps cockit his lugs when he's ...
... foxes or dugs, He'll curl himsel intae a baa. Like a big broun Scotch Thistle, he caumly reclines, Wi the thocht ...
See the Boat Blair, Anna 213 2 9.39

... Great day's here, You cannae beat Your once't a year, your big-big treat To sail the Clyde fae Broomielaw At risin' tide, ...
... day's here, You cannae beat Your once't a year, your big-big treat To sail the Clyde fae Broomielaw At risin' tide, wi' ...
The School Photograph Blair, Anna 229 2 8.73

... Boys with ties pulled-round a' sidieways. There was gawky big Sadie and Harold O'Grady Tizzie Bell with her wee button ...
... There were jerseys in fankles and socks down at ankles Big collars and pigtail skeewiff We'd Specky McGinty, his ...
A Bonnie Fechter Templeton, Sheila 305 2 6.56

... day we heard a scraping ootside the kitchen door. He was big. His antlers telt a lang story, a hero's story, of ...
... And waited and watched while he took his time, his fine big heid lowered wi nae loss o dignity. And so he lat me feed ...
Ma Gairden Hynd, George 307 2 6.51

... Ah built a burd bath, an a wee totty barry Then added a big muckle gnome An noo ma ain wee cooncil hoose Is mair like ...
... like yon place Longleat Then a'body wid come tae see it In big que's ootside they'd wait 'Cos ah'd get masel a wee ticket ...
Kin Ye Mind? Hynd, George 338 2 5.92

... ye mind o searchin' fur puddocks and taddies Tae keep in a big sweetie jar An pinchin' tatties oot o the fields Tae roast ...
... so ah jist din ZEDS Kin ye mind o pabyin' at fitba Wi a big leather ba' wi a lace an lyin' on the ground flat on yer ...
Dipper: 25 - The Doukie Begg, Dr James A Audio 447 2 4.47

... sarks an semmits tae, An syne get yokit in Tae big a dyke o sods an stanes Across its shalla tail, An mak ...
... At breist-stroke or the crawl, Till yin an aa, baith big an smaa, Wis chitterin wi the cauld; Then courit-doun ...
The Girnin Gates - Chapter 3 MacDonald, Hamish 564 2 3.55

... frae oor street cawed Scobie interruptit an goes in ees big daft voice: "Heh! Stoap! Stoap! Somedae stoap that nun ...
... ursel." Sister Josephine stood an prayed hard. Maw gied a big push an Da went tae guddle me oot. The nun stepped forward ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 06 - 13.09.81 852 565 2 3.54

... raucous, and more impersonal. Hockey - ice hockey - is the big game here, and their big world event, the Canada Cup, is ...
... Hockey - ice hockey - is the big game here, and their big world event, the Canada Cup, is on just now. There was a ...
Dipper: 42 - The Paddy Begg, Dr James A 572 2 3.50

... cuttie coat, Smilin the smile o a Politeecian; While twa big gairdian angels Cairt his bags an luik aroun, As if tae ...
... We slide intae Euston, An the Meenister glides awa In his big black caur. ___ smeekit/smoke-blackened mirk/darkness ...
Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers Hedderwick, Mairi 572 2 3.50

... to tidy for her." Granma Mainland lived far away in the big city. She was coming to stay with them for a holiday. ...
... muttered Grannie Island to herself. Show Day was always a big event on the Island of Struay. At the Post Office, Mr and ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 05 - 08.09.81 852 581 2 3.44

... Sept. 1981 Dear Maw, Paw, & Al, On duty. Yes, today's big surprise is, I've got a job, of sorts!! Your globetrotting ...
... or not, it's all so strange, usually in subtle rather than big ways. Like the much larger size of the cars, the standard ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 27 - 16.01.82 852 633 2 3.16

... That should take care of my copious free time... The big talking-point here just now is the earth tremors that have ...
... shaking the eastern seaboard all week. I've only felt the big one, which woke me up last Saturday morning. The whole ...
Dipper: 50 - The Auld Jenny Heron Begg, Dr James A Audio 684 2 2.92

... unsuspectin wee treat Tae linger ower lang forenent her big feet. Stey still, haud a meenit, Auld Jenny's steirin, ...
... hauf-chucklt afore she breks loose, Syne draps the big eel, then grups it again, Pecks twa or three times, ...
Pub review of The Living Room, Glasgow English, Paul 696 2 2.87

... lads thinking that they were the local equivalent of Mr Big. It's like Morton thinking they're Real Madrid. Still, ...
... one of our boozers commented made 'everyone look healthy', big windows, roomy tables, a long bar and creamy drapes give ...
A wikk o shows taks me back an fore in time - April 25, 2005 Shepherd, Robbie 779 2 2.57

... Wednesday nicht it wis the Students' Show, Thursday, the Big Yin emsel Billy Connolly an Setterday dennertime I wis oot ...
... gweed in the lead role o Minnie Cooper. Syne it wis the Big Yin in the Music Hall an the first time we hid seen him ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 13, recording 2: playing over breakfast N/A Audio 874 2 2.29

... Dollops of that come out. F1105: Okay? M1106 : Big dollops of milkshake. F1105: What's on? M1106 : ...
... sword. F1105: Mmhm. Try your bedroom. I think the big ones are in your bedroom. M1106 : [exhale] ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 50 - 21.07.82 852 912 2 2.19

... farmlands full of PEI tatties, Ayrshire cattle, and big wooden farmhouses. Miles upon miles of beach ... of all ...
... upon miles of beach ... of all the North Shore is one big beach-come-provincial park. Ann's family was very good to ...
Conversation 18: Edinburgh lexicographer on making recordings N/A Audio 920 2 2.17

... because wee Jocky so-and-so kens mair Scots nor we- than Big Sandy. And Big Sandy's wife's, wife's cousin kens mair ...
... so-and-so kens mair Scots nor we- than Big Sandy. And Big Sandy's wife's, wife's cousin kens mair nor anybody in the ...
Dipper: 48 - Angling Club Minutes (Unofficial) Item 1. Reid, John 1,061 2 1.89

... accustomed tae the daurk, an I could juist mak oot the big rocks in front o me. The voice wis comin frae the faur ...
... I mind o anither nicht whan I wis doon the watter wi the big flees. Willie Wilson an his brither Rab were at the ...
Craiters: 14 - E Black Things Fenton, Alexander 1,111 2 1.80

... wis backit up tee till't ye cd harly see't. I nippit a big spunk box oot o e draaer o ma desk faar I keepit it, half ...
... an clean oot o sicht. At wis e hinmist sicht I got o es big spiders, bit I ay min on em an e wye ey wheekit ower e ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 09, recording 1: practising horse-riding and getting ready to go out N/A Audio 1,223 2 1.64

... back. Wahey! Well done! F1100: [laugh] That's a big one! F1099: [laugh] F1100: That's a big horse, ...
... That's a big one! F1099: [laugh] F1100: That's a big horse, these are. //[inaudible]// F1099: //Would ...
General Franco: his part in my downfall Fisher, Mark 1,323 2 1.51

... in the Second World War - and now it all seems like one big adventure. AMONG THE FAMILY photographs on the wall is his ...
... opened. Two soldiers burst in with guns and they gave us a big pan of soup. They went out the door and that was it. There ...
Dipper: 46 - Jenny Wren's Jaunt tae Islay - May 1983 & July 1984 Begg, Dr James A 1,340 2 1.49

... the tap o the Doctor's caur An him an the rest inside. My big freen “Iona” had us onboard. She works for a fella ...
... West o Nor-West. Nae nonsense wi beatin an tackin, The big yin went straucht as a bullet, Wi niver a thocht aboot ...
Unleash the vision of the artists Fisher, Mark 1,357 2 1.47

... I visited recently. They say it will one day become a big financial centre. Once they demolish the dingy, ...
... of Scottish Opera as if it were a company of elitist big spenders, instead of an organisation suffering gross ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 21, recording 1: playing with a cat, drawing, and feeding fish N/A Audio 1,372 2 1.46

... as that ain. F1131: No? [yawn] Ah, but there's a big difference atween my age and your age. M1132: Are you ...
... was thinking on. //[inaudible]// M1132: //Hey, too big!// F1131: Ah, but we can modify it, ca- surely, no? ...
Hearts & Darts Bruce, Eddie 1,555 2 1.29

... watch, Fiona’s lingering fragrance conspired with the two big measures of whisky he had earlier, to quicken his pulse ...
... a vision in her short midnight blue dress, himself and big Alistair MacPhail in their kilts hired for the day…the ...
Craiters: 04 - E Backlins Calfie Fenton, Alexander 1,628 2 1.23

... as no ye’d niver get e ither bit. Aathing geed intil a big pail, an fin es wis full, een o e jobs I files did wis tae ...
... e coo tryin tae ease e backlins calfie oot. E coo, a great big eesie-osie black an fite Friesian, wis moanin awa laich, ...
Interview 07: Teacher speaking about childhood in Shetland N/A Audio 1,654 2 1.21

... up fae// F606: //Right// F828: the mainland in big con-, steel containers. F606: Oh aye. F828: Or I ...
... that kept it cool anywey it was seemed like it was great big boxes F606: uh-huh F828: ehm because of course ...
The Fower Quarters: 09 - Millennium Moggies Inc. Blackhall, Sheena 1,657 2 1.21

... first past that post by a long way. When it grows too big for comfort, you can always eat it. I'm told they're very ...
... Well no, apart from the odd bull, it hasn't caught on in a big way in the animal world. Some tortoises have benefited ...
Dipper: 44 - 'Butch and Sundance' Begg, Dr James A 1,737 2 1.15

... day…… but ane o his mates had taen five oot frae ahint yon big stane ower there on Monday…… There were nae byllies ...
... tryin a wee bit o psychological warfare, 'Ye're in big eneuch trouble as it is, withoot rinnin awa. We ken wha ye ...
Scots Tung Wittins 71 Fairnie, Robert 1,807 2 1.11

... season, it wad cure onie o its supporters frae haein a big heid an, frae his fotie in Aiberdeen's Green Final, Wee ...
... tae normal agane but puir wee sowl, he nae suiner gits his big heid sortit oot, whan he haes tae dree a broken hert. At ...
Craiters: 05 - 'Dirty Beast' Fenton, Alexander 1,953 2 1.02

... runs. Weel, we’d a cat eence aboot e craft, a great big strippit beast caad Timoshenko. It wis ill for wannerin ...
... haein ma denner an I spottit a hullock o seagulls gaan in big circles. It wisna jist be chance. Ey hid eir wings oot, an ...
A Small Book of Translations: 32 - Glossary & Notes Hutchison, Alexander 1,973 2 1.01

... is a low crouching dance; ee is you; lowse is loose; big eens are big ones; keckle is cackle, laugh loudly: haffets ...
... crouching dance; ee is you; lowse is loose; big eens are big ones; keckle is cackle, laugh loudly: haffets are side ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 20, recording 1: getting ready to go to a birthday party N/A Audio 2,011 2 0.99

... an R. An O. And then M., but it's a little M., nae a big M. like the start o your name. [CENSORED: forename ...
... //Oh, [inaudible] this paper.// Will that be big enough? Just, maybe. Aye, we winna need to cut it. Put ...
Food ideas Anderson, Wendy 2,116 2 0.95

... Ingredients: c. 10 new potatoes, 3 rashers of bacon, big dollop of mayo, (spring onions), (chopped pepper), ...
... bacon is done. Put the egg yolks (NOT WHITES) in a bowl big enough to hold all the spaghetti, and grate in the ...
Scots Tung Wittins 172 Fairnie, Robert 2,164 2 0.92

... to say my over-arching view of this case is what a pair of big weans you are, you and Mr Christie - him in the huff and ...
... wunner gin Sheriff Munro wad hiv cried Sheriff Wood a big wean or on the ither haund wad Sheriff Wood hiv pitten ...
Scots Tung Wittins 46 Fairnie, Robert 2,181 2 0.92

... or river. Yacker.................a big stane atween a chuckie an a bowlder. ...
... onie kinna offeecial wey. The forgaitherin wis haudit tae big the Owerband intae a mair organized an structured kinna ...
Katy the Crocodile Blackhall, Sheena 2,194 2 0.91

... There is Skinnymalinkie Hanna Fatty Hetty big an broon There's a hoolet caad Horatio Fa ay sleeps upside ...
... doctor, my chikk's burnin I will takk a mixture or a great big peel Sen fur the doctor cause I'm nae weel Postie Dunt, ...
Scots Tung Wittins 120 Fairnie, Robert 2,243 2 0.89

... country the day." (Itchy Coo catalogue) Tam o Shanter's Big Night Oot is editit bi Matthew Fitt an James Robertson. ...
... hamecomin:- "The Forth Rail Brig taen seeven year tae big an wis officially opened in Mairch 1890 bi H.R.H. Prince o ...
Scots Tung Wittins 119 Fairnie, Robert 2,301 2 0.87

... that rowes in the European Commission direck like tae big up a European Agency for Linguistic Diversity an Language ...
... burnt ma haun. Pit TCP oan it, hen. Granny, A've goat a big plook oan ma neb. Pit TCP oan it. Granny, ma thrapple's ...
Scots Tung Wittins 70 Fairnie, Robert 2,337 2 0.86

... speir whit wey onie Aiberdeen supporter can end up wi a big heid. ~~~ooo~~~ The Gaels Hae a Word For It. Neist ...
... an the singer on the tape wis still giein San Francisco big licks but wi a slower an deeper vice. He set Eddie's pint ...
Scots Tung Wittins 100 Fairnie, Robert 2,370 2 0.84

... first muckle projeck o its like in Scotland. It ettles tae big a muckle electronic ingaitherin o baith written an spoken ...
... texts haes been ingaithert, they'll be eikit thegither tae big up a muckle electronic archive. SCOTS will be a resource ...
Why do we teach Grammar? Philp, Andrew 2,409 2 0.83

... with humorous results (e.g. ‘A pig is a football’, or ‘Ten big men with fleas crashed’). From the subsequent discussion ...
... introduced in the early stages, as and when they appear in big books being used in class. Similarly, questions, ...

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