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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.
Interview with group of women in Clydebank 1 N/A Audio 6,482 6 0.93

... yes", so I had to go see the doctor. He al- always had a big clinic there but everybody had to pass the doctor before ...
... was, when they came into, I was given this office with a big knee hole desk. I felt really pompous sitting behind it. ...
... got called up and she can't go because she's got too big a family or something like that but we've got to judge ...
... we repr- I represented the the firm which was quite a big responsibility but I loved it, you know, always up to ...
... fourteen year old, in the Highlands it was just one class, big class, one teacher and, when I got to the age of twelve, ...
Interview with Harry Ferguson for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 19,200 8 0.42

... Mm. M1202: So er that er took us away from the big city, and got us down to the fresh air of the sea coast. ...
... //Er// F1189: //Mm.// M1202: er there was in the big house on the coast, we would buy books and consult with ...
... McGill.// And he had these outrageous postcards of the big fat Govan woman and the wee skinny Glasgow man. [laugh] ...
... Same with Bruce, erm, so we were brought up with this er big chip on our shoulders about the English, F1189: Mmhm. ...
... met one. Call them over." So he selects the tallest, big hunched shouldered fellow, all bangles and beads and ...
Interview with Liz Lochhead N/A Audio 4,449 2 0.45

... in a sort of plateau for a while, and then you take a big erm advance forward. Erm, I did feel pressured, I ...
... //[laugh]// F66: And now, because I've had that big sixty, birthday, I could retire. [laugh] Somebody ...
Interview with Margaret Ritchie for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 24,558 25 1.02

... F1192: It lies between two rivers and the nearest big town is Kirkcaldy. F1189: Mmhm mmhm. F1192: And ...
... brother. F1189: Mmhm. F1192: Aye, so //it was a big struggle.// F1189: //So three children.// F1192: ...
... um it was one of these Thornton itself didn't have a big cinema, it //just// F1189: //Mmhm.// F1192: was ...
... nice house actually. //And ehm.// F1189: //Yeah, how big was it?// F1192: Three-bedroomed house. F1189: Mm ...
... annuals, //You know// F1189: //Mmhm.// F1192: big thick, with all wee different stories in them. //Mm.// ...
Interview with Mary A Ronnie, Part 1, for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 19,851 8 0.40

... that's why we //got this bigger house - and it had a big basement.// F1189: //Ah, right, uh-huh, uh-huh, ...
... //house and// F1189: //Mmhm.// F1190: they had a big garden, and they had an orchard, //and this felt// ...
... F1189: //Mm, mmhm.// F1190: So there was this big //reference room upstairs with// F1189: //Mmhm, ...
... Dickens //collection which is in the library, which is a big collection of Dickens material.// F1189: //Mmhm, mmhm, ...
... who didn't like it. //But there must have been a big difference in the atmosphere from Hyndland.// F1189: ...
Interview with Mary A Ronnie, Part 2, for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 21,283 13 0.61

... Mmhm. F1190: And for a month, we went round with a big trolley, F1189: Mmhm. F1190: going through every ...
... to own them and //particularly, I've got quite a big New Zealand collection.// F1189: //Mmhm, mmhm.// ...
... turned out in-in F1189: Mmhm. F1190: quite big numbers then, but there wasn't the same intensity of ...
... places, she was going to small schools and - it wasn't big, flourishy stuff.// F1189: //Mm, mmhm, mmhm, mmhm, ...
... just //non-stop.// F1189: //Yes,// it it w-was big news in-in the States, I think. //Mmhm, mmhm, mmhm.// ...
Interview with Michael Stipe of REM English, Paul 1,896 4 2.11

... brunch of boiled eggs, melon slices and berries. 'I'm not big on breakfast,' he says. 'I got up late today. 'But I think ...
... in June. And he is already relishing the prospect. 'A big Scottish crowd is something that you remember, that's for ...
... Billy Bragg and rumoured squeeze Natalie Merchant at The Big Day in 1990. 'I remember that well,' he says. 'I wore a ...
... bisexuality in 1994 and couldn't believe it when it became big news in the UK in 2001. 'It's something that I've always ...
Interview with Professor Christian Kay, part 1 - on the Historical Thesaurus project N/A Audio 1,728 6 3.47

... I don't think when it was started anybody realised how big it was going to be or how long it would take. //I mean ...
... Yeah the structure of it emerged quite early, the big overall classes. That was in a- an exercise that Michael ...
... much differently, looking back on... //I know it's a big, big question, but. [laugh]// F606: //Erm. Yes it ...
... differently, looking back on... //I know it's a big, big question, but. [laugh]// F606: //Erm. Yes it is.// ...
... wasn't there in the eighties?// F606: Em it was quite big in the nineteen eighties, cause there was very high ...
Interview with Professor Christian Kay, part 2 - academic life N/A Audio 2,351 3 1.28

... And of course the the electronic revolution has made a big difference. That's probably saved us from drowning in ...
... to parse things, and comment on them. So I think the big change is having subjects like Phonetics and Grammar and ...
... there's always a risk of a small unit being absorbed by a big one, because then your priorities change. So if you're ...
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, ...
Interview with Ricky Ross of Deacon Blue English, Paul 1,528 4 2.62

... and spent the Wednesday getting more together. 'I filled a big bag with old studio shots of the band, and all sorts of ...
... Blue at the height of their success - headlining 1990's Big Day, performing live at Glasgow's SECC and Barrowland - ...
... then he got ill and became very thin. And then he got big again when he was on steroids. 'The rest of the song is my ...
... as it is for his wife and family. But it's been a very big thing for all of us.' Another song on Ricky's album,The ...
Interview with Robert Bruce for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 28,169 50 1.78

... mmhm mmhm.// M1682: //Because it was it was such a big blaze at the time they tried to clear everybody out of the ...
... //Mmhm mmhm mmhm.// M1682: //It was er it was a big Catholic a- academy at the time, for secondary school.// ...
... the best ones and that was yeah that's gon- and I was big into comics, I I //especially the Classics,// F1189: ...
... and I enjoyed reading.// //That was that was the big thing, I enjoyed reading it was eh it was a past time I ...
... I sometimes read to my sisters but I would say it wasn't a big thing. F1189: Mm. //Mm mmhm.// M1682: //To me it ...
Interview with Stan Kirkpatrick, Part 1, for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 12,193 2 0.16

... in one small class. And that eh they had eh so many big eh eh //yachts,// F1189: //Mm.// M1191: eh motor ...
... //It's a large house and it was eh always known as the big house on the hill.// F1189: //Mm.// Yes. //Uh-huh ...
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 ...
Interview with two Polish speakers in Glasgow N/A Audio 3,758 3 0.80

... [inaudible], maybe because here, Glasgow is leave er a big town so //it's a little different but on the street// ...
... n-, it's still not possible I think for me. Er but a big difference is that here in Scotland young people, or not ...
... about also free time, er I notice that that is also a big difference. Erm women er of the age about forty, fifty, ...
Interview with woman at Glasgow Women's Library N/A Audio 7,542 32 4.24

... Mmhm. F1218: And wooden shutters. And er, two big chairs, wooden stairs, there was four te-, four ...
... so so nice to me, so sweet to me. //And they were always big ladies with white, white, white coats on.// F1217: ...
... my stepdad worked in an underground tunnel where they had big pieces of wood, and the men would chop up a little bit and ...
... brother and sister and it was a long walk, I got a great big bundle of rags, which was common in those days, all this ...
... my brother and sister with the pram, and I had a great big bundle of rags from my aunt, and you got great money for ...
It's time tae reflect as fiddlers come and go - February 28, 2005 Shepherd, Robbie 787 1 1.27

... guests an tae a young loon or wis't a lass ahin the big drum. Aa ye cwid see wis the drum an twa furry fists gaein ...
Jade Lute Purves, David 7,581 1 0.13

... monie, a, many mouls, n, soil muin, n, moon mukkil, a, big murner, n, mourner mynd, v, remember myndin, n, ...
Joseph Knight (extract 1) Robertson, James 5,946 3 0.50

... ‘Weel, I’ll tell ye,’ she said. ‘It’s a country whaur big glaikit chiels like you dae whit they’re tellt by the ...
... house because of the ‘blackie’. Peggy’s man Chae was a big glaik from Forfar, often half drunk and always wholly ...
... sight of Joseph, and she had known why she had come to the big house out on the Perth road: she had come for him. The ...
Joseph Knight (extract 2) [Content label: serious] Robertson, James 5,653 1 0.18

... there. Simple farmer’s fare, and we ate with the family. Big hacks of ham, and boiled eggs. “Show me any of your French ...

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