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454 documents matching criteria (34.50% of corpus)

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

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Title Author Multimedia Word count Freq. Norm.
Conversation 10: Two female students on travel and university N/A Video 6,028 5 0.83

... [tut], it's um, I think it's good that it's quite a big city, coming, like, coming from Hamburg and stuff. Um, ...
... that, but. Yeah. F807: [laugh] F806: [laugh] Big pause! [laugh] F807: [cough] [laugh] F806: ...
... the summer break, you know, eh June, July. F807: The big break? //Mmhm// F806: //Yeah,// I don't th-, I ...
... so we sat out the side on the terrace, and there was a big umbrella. I had a strappy top on but I sat underneath the ...
... of [exhale] [laugh] oh no! F806: That's a big essay! F807: I know, I know. F806: Hefty topics. ...
Conversation 11: Two female students chatting on various topics [Content label: lesser] N/A Video 8,349 3 0.36

... that //kind of place.// F810: //Cause eh, they do a big// thing up on eh, what do you call it? Arthur's Seat. ...
... none of these, none of these" and then I found like this big chunk of university-relevant texts. //So I was "oh,// ...
... jumper. Honestly. This horrible panda jumper and her big moustache. It's just so horrible, [laugh], but eh. I ...
Conversation 12: Two male students chatting about pastimes N/A Video 12,111 23 1.90

... every bone in my body. M815: No. M816: None o the big, //none o the,// M815: //Too careful!// M816: ...
... M816: in Scotland have got them. They're sort of big cats that are about the //place. There seems to be ...
... be quite,// M815: //Don't know. It's probably just a big dog, or something.// M816: there seems to be quite a ...
... M816: And er, and in the semi-final, this great big heifer //of a centre-half// M815: //[cough]// ...
... I don't play it so much these days. but, in my day, it was big folk thing was the M815: Yeah. M816: the things, ...
Conversation 14: Two male students on university life [Content label: serious] N/A Video 6,842 2 0.29

... kinda young and kinda thinking "oh it's cool, it's like a big //shopping centre."// M819: //[?]Government ...
... where that's worked, puttin a shoppin centre, I mean, the big one at, well, cracker example! Right? And this never ...
Conversation 16: Four students on memories and music festivals [Content label: serious] N/A Video 11,091 18 1.62

... She-ra.// M811: Yeah, yeah, [inaudible] bit in a big lion //thing.// F813: //Yeah, I do// remember ...
... in the advert// they had to, like, climb up this big, to castle and stuff like //that and she had a// F813: ...
... and your foot// F814: //Yeah.// F812: in that big machine //[laugh]// F814: //[laugh]// F813: ...
... cause you want to go up and get your foot measured on the big contraption [inaudible]// F813: And one foot was ...
... ended up taking our tent, right, we're, we actually had a big tents in a circle, it was like all his friends and that, ...
Conversation 33: Two female students on Scotland, and University education N/A Video 11,628 7 0.60

... F1037: //So,// anyway. F1038: I've got a massive big //politics thing, [laugh]// F1037: //Yeah, that's ...
... things, well theatre tickets, all the time, for all the big London theatres, Shakespeare Company, all that sort of ...
... to University College, and it looked amazing, you know, big //castle, that kind of thing,// F1037: //Yeah, ...
... could never quite get it.// I got one about that //big. [laugh]// F1037: //No, no, i- it// the- there ...
... F1037: go into if I if I got a reason to do a big shopping, nip in there and er go to Marks and Sparks, ...
Conversation 34: Two students on leisure interests and part-time work [Content label: serious] N/A Video 9,753 6 0.62

... hit with sticks across his back, and it ends up, he's got big red marks, it's horrible. Dad hates doin it. //But ...
... I was quite annoyed, but erm I seen like this huge big punchbag, and I always thought, see the ones that you ...
... like they just cover and no more, it's not like huge //big boxin gloves.// F1049: //Uh-huh.// M1048: Erm and ...
... a huge one, like a huge pizza, and all that, er you get a big bottle of Coke and chips and something else for a tenner. ...
... F1049: I know. Linny's comin back down for Lynn's big sister's twenty-first but I'm going to take them out ...
Conversation 38: Two female students discussing school in the UK and Luxembourg and travel N/A Video 6,492 1 0.15

... //or somewhere and there was, it was like a big centre for loads of schools, there was loads of other ...
Conversation 40: Two students from near Dumfries on university and home [Content label: lesser] N/A Video 8,270 6 0.73

... apparently they were down to see my mum last week in the big new house. Erm, but they we- came on Sunday night and ...
... mum's new erm new house, she's got her couches now, the big chocolate brown leather //couches.// F1155: //Oh did ...
... when we were at at er school and they came and gave us a big talk for the Crichton Campus, //to try and stop// ...
... //Mm.// //That'll be good. It'll look good in your big Christmas tree.// F1154: //cause I don't know how ...
... favourite one, aren't you?// //Yeah, we could have a big tree though, couldn't we, like in the window.// F1155: ...
Inaugural speech by John Kirk to launch the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech Kirk, John M Video 6,982 8 1.15

... to the launch of the SCOTS Corpus Project. This is a a big day for us; I mean it's especially a big day for me cause ...
... This is a a big day for us; I mean it's especially a big day for me cause I seem to get to make three speeches. ...
... as a corpus and now there's a huge debate, "Well, how big is the internet?", and erm [laugh] what erm eh ...
... ye know, the earlier point you want it all as it were, big might not be beautiful in that case. Ehm in the ICE ...
... they heard "of", and [claps] transcribed it as "O F", so big problems there. Ethics, getting permission to record, ...
Lecture: A Curriculum for Excellence: latest developments and implications for the teaching of languages in Scotland N/A Video 7,965 5 0.63

... that four of the sort of key points that came out of that big consultation exercise, which are particularly important ...
... clearly. So sort of narrowing it down from the great big picture to where we are. The programme board that was ...
... it links in to Assessment is for Learning which has been a big initiative in primary and in secondary, looking at ...
... there because curriculum flexibility, which is the other big erm project at the moment, it- it- it's almost erm ...
... But I was equally aware at the time that there were big problems concerning Higher English, [cough] which I ...
Lecture on Scottish Literature 1 Corbett, Dr John B Video 7,319 1 0.14

... that far back. [inhale] ah, he just writes these great big long periods. [click] [inhale] But staying in the ...
Lecture: the Glasgow Gaelic School N/A Video 4,849 1 0.21

... children. So it was very small numbers in a very big school. So ehm what er was perceived or felt that was ...
BBC Voices Recording: Aberdeen N/A Audio 13,536 9 0.66

... was an iron sink, not enamel, iron sink ye know, an we'd a big zinc bath and Da used tae sit in the bath an we'd tae ...
... o rice, because Ma was in the wash-hoose an there was a big biler goin an she was sweatin an she'd on her rubber apron ...
... rubber apron an //an oh my God!// F1041: //An her big boots.// M1042: An an if it was rainin the the the ...
... I would hae s- 'thingummybob', 'her wi the big nose', or 'her wi the// //droopy eyes' or you would try ...
... M1042: //yeah but// yeah 'drookit' is a big word. //That's when oh God ye're absolutely drookit an I ...
BBC Voices Recording: Dunbar [Content label: lesser] N/A Audio 13,714 8 0.58

... used tae say exactly what Gordon says, anyone living in big house an that in Dunbar, "Oh they're the well off, we're ...
... M1014: //Kept the sun off [inaudible]// //It was a big hood [inaudible].// M1017: //A big, a big thing made ...
... //It was a big hood [inaudible].// M1017: //A big, a big thing made by, my mother used tae make them, it was ...
... was a big hood [inaudible].// M1017: //A big, a big thing made by, my mother used tae make them, it was a big ...
... big thing made by, my mother used tae make them, it was a big thing wi// //oh hoops, canes an things like that an it ...
BBC Voices Recording: Hawick N/A Audio 11,536 7 0.61

... he's no gettin money in an thing like that an him wi a big faimly an thing like that but that's what she fund oot ...
... be a// a lot o tenements in Hawick an you know there was big families, could be up tae seventy folk usin a couple o ...
... yer shouder?// M1010: eh they had bi- muckle big barras an they pit their slates ontae it their ledders ...
... maybe before your age, like// but they aw used tae be big boots an big jackets an an their the ladies they they ...
... your age, like// but they aw used tae be big boots an big jackets an an their the ladies they they were just the ...
BBC Voices Recording: Inverurie N/A Audio 12,014 6 0.50

... F1001: //But the at that time o day folk had great big hooses,// M1000: //Mmhm.// F1001: an I suppose ye ...
... M1002: //Or a calfie.// M999: When ye become a big quinie then ye become a quine. [laugh] There's, then ...
... //Aye, aye.// M999: meanin that. //Meaning the big a- the big area that's eh between the hoose an the an ...
... aye.// M999: meanin that. //Meaning the big a- the big area that's eh between the hoose an the an the steadin,// ...
... enough, I //[inaudible]// F1001: //A fine a fine big car an// a fine big hoose. M999: Aye. F1001: Twa ...
BBC Voices Recording: Leith N/A Audio 16,679 9 0.54

... F1054: And is there no kilts in Dundee, is it not a big thing? M1019: Well I don't know about in Dundee but in ...
... you see, changed, changed. But eh, later on there was a big influx frae the west, and I palled aboot wi some boys ...
... apart from syntax and grammar used, which does make a big difference to individual languages, I found anyway, I ...
... the word "gear", you know? Aye, plumbers and those with big tools and instruments did use a toolbox, aye, it was ...
... gear. Aye, and it was smaller, you didnae have to lug a big tool kit across, "It's got to go in, [?]Char-[/?]. It'll ...
BBC Voices Recording: Perth N/A Audio 17,146 7 0.41

... Mmhm. F1027: An it was great cause there were great big huge //enormous baths and you could have as much hot ...
... I wouldn't know. F1027: Oh there been- that was a big discussion in our //house.// F1023: //Aye I asked ...
... and things like that, whereas the garden shed had the big tools. F1025: Mmhm mmhm. F1027: So it would be "Go ...
... they've got all this weight round their waist plus your big body armour an, //I mean it must// F1024: //Cer- ...
... round the ear for it too, well no, not now they're too big! [laugh]// F1026: //[laugh]// //Oh.// F1023: ...
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 ...

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