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

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Journal of the Russian Trip Kay, Prof Christian 6,438 3 0.47

... group had been five years ago), and several times I saw big queues for eggs and milk. We did manage to taste the ...
... but did not stay long, as it was very crowded and so big that it was impossible to find what one wanted. We walked ...
... stalls in the street. People clustered round a big American car. Seems to be only one kind of car made in ...
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 ...
Katie Morag Delivers the Mail Hedderwick, Mairi 714 1 1.40

... At the third house, Mr MacMaster was standing by a big barrel of whitewash, holding the Lady Artist's paint ...
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, ...
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 ...
Language Games and Activities McGonigal, James,
Philp, Andrew		 4,502 2 0.44

... adjective (‘describing word’) in each sentence: ‘Tom is a big black-and-white cat and Jerry is a little grey mouse’; or ...
... increasingly complex and wobbly sentence topples over: The big bad wolf/ with the wicked face/ crept up to the farm/ ...
Learning Through Reading and Writing: Informational Texts Philp, Andrew 2,683 1 0.37

... zoo. He is called Sandy. He is light brown, but he has a big black mane around his neck. He just sleeps in his cage all ...
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 ...
Letter from an Island in the Middle of an Unknown Sea Rimbaud, Dee 2,534 5 1.97

... engineer on the railroads. Ah often imagine ye howfin they big sleepers wi yir big airms. An how ah wish yir big airms ...
... Ah often imagine ye howfin they big sleepers wi yir big airms. An how ah wish yir big airms were roond me now, ma ...
... they big sleepers wi yir big airms. An how ah wish yir big airms were roond me now, ma darlin. Ye say it’s hot in ...
... wonder if it’s such a sin, wi no fowk tae see. It is no a big island, aboot forty or fifty acres only, an thair is ...
... far cry fae death, so a clobbered its wee heid wi a muckle big bit wid an ah roastit it guid at the fire. It tuik me many ...
Loon (extract) [Content label: lesser] Blackhall, Sheena 3,235 3 0.93

... Da pued a hauf o fuskey fae his jaiket pooch an cowped a big slug o't inno his mug o tea. A "birse cup", he caas it. ...
... his mug o tea. A "birse cup", he caas it. "See him, yer big loon," he said tae my Ma (he ay makks oot I'm nae his ...
... ae body in yer faimly tae like ye, div'nt ye noo? "He's a big brosie kinno a chiel," quo Granda. "Nae a shilpit wee ...
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 ...
Memories come floodin back o lost Aiberdeen - February 14, 2005 Shepherd, Robbie 785 1 1.27

... bargains, an here in Aiberdeen the same happen't on Big W closing doon. Bring back the Green an the Co-opie in the ...
Millenium Bug Cairry-oot Ferguson, Chris 2,904 4 1.38

... Hogmananay hud been a few week back now. It hud been the big yin - thay hud been bangin on aboot it fir months afore - ...
... make a difference, it wis juist the same. Thir wis a big hole whaur his chest an stomach hud been juist a short ...
... aroond it the end o the day. The eejits left ower fae the big pairtie nae doot whae didnae ken whit else tae dae wi ...
... tae see intae his soul an ken. He felt like he'd hud a big 'H' pit on his foreheid fir aebodie tae see as a warnin, ...
Minnie Blackhall, Sheena 32,033 5 0.16

... mither Sally an the kitchie deem Meg Ramsay cried aa the big fowk intae the ferm kitchie fur a plate o yaval broth. ...
... they hae daen withoot Jock this lasy fyew wikks, at the big toun dairy tfar his maister's mither bedd in her fine braw ...
... she said her prayers like her faither hid telt her...the Big Prayer noo, nae the little een, though sometimes she said ...
... fin I becam a man, I pit awa aa bairn ferlies.... Yer a big quine noo, sister, ye winna be needin a dallie there in ...
... a thoosan ither jobs that needin daein. Aften, fowk at the big hooses wadna lat the milkmen chap at the front door, ...
Mountain Music - Chapters 1-4 Mackay, Sheila 50,638 5 0.10

... via the fruit and vegetables which were always a joy: big tomatoes, tasty and substantial, too ungainly for the ...
... brain scan, examinations, tests had already run up a big bill) until I remembered that they were in a bag I had ...
... I visit you? Tomorrow is the Feast of the Three Kings, a big celebration here in Spain. You should not be alone.' ...
... Livingstone's house. He's away at the moment. There's a big table in his lovely garden where we can spread our feast ...
... to his every word. My unexpected companion was a big man, not overweight, with a craggy Celtic face and amused ...
"Obituary for Christine Guthrie, 1896-1999" MacGillivray, Alan 1,893 1 0.53

... spent occasional holidays with her at Cairndhu. The big adventure of her later life occurred when she made a ...
Overheard at the Chippie: Big brither, wee brither Blackhall, Sheena 142 1 7.04

... a flamin scunner. No, ye canna. Dannie, can I clap yon big Alsation? Nuh. Stuff yer face wi this. Here's a banana. ...
Peggy's Party Connell, Andrina 2,769 2 0.72

... “Well just you light up whenever you feel like it. Your big son’s been on the phone and I’ve convinced him he doesn’t ...
... if a bus came first – well. He turned to wave to her. The big silver Christmas tree, its abundant and identical blue ...

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