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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 ...
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 ...
Pillars of Society Thirkell, Alison 29,032 8 0.28

... that used to go on. There were some houses that had twa big dinner-parties in a week. MRS LAING: And I hear there was ...
... by grand, exactly? DEANA: Grand is - something that is big and worthwhile and - far, far away. ROWLAND: Hm. Deana, my ...
... guidwill I can muster frae my fellow-citizens. I've a gey big enterprise on hand, as you may have heard, and if ...
... Beaumont," as it says over the gate. You seem to be the big man around here. JACK: Fine ships you have too. I bumped ...
... for the sake o Betty. All the same - that you could be so big-heartit as tak the blame - JACK: Put it behind you, James. ...
Pompitie Finnds a Needle - play Purves, David 11,406 4 0.35

... tea caddy.) Pompitie: A mukkil needle---? Tea Wyfe: Ay, a big braw yin. Pompitie: N-N-Na, no me! Wha wants ti ken? Tea ...
... He wad hae, but he didna see me, wi him be-in sae big an me be-in sae wee. Pepper: Ah wad hae been feart richt ...
... war never a wee laddie, shuirlie? Broun Ogre: Ah wes aye big an strang for ma age, but it didna dae me onie guid. Ah ...
... kiss hir. She said Ah wes a mukkil jessie! Juist kis ye’r big an strang, it disna mean ye want ti hurt oniebodie. It’s ...
Preparing to Meet the Minotaur Blackhall, Sheena 8,944 2 0.22

... jist a flamin scunner. No, ye canna. "Dan, can I clap yon big Alsatian dug?" Nuh. Stuff yer face wi this. Here's a ...
... caught on the hop A fast food takeaway . "Oh pussy, what big eyes you've got" Floppy's a rag doll, dried blood stuck to ...
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 ...
Queerie-Orrals Blackhall, Sheena 4,073 3 0.74

... inno the bosie o Teenie McGee. It grew through the nicht big's a were-wolf sae furry, Nae twa winks o sleep could she ...
... there. It treetled ahin her fin she wauked tae class, Sae big noo, the teacher could hardly win past. Fariver she gaed ...
... tae her granny, an grat on her lap. (The Worry cam tae, big's an elephant's bap). Granny tuik oot her glaisses, the ...
Recounting Blessings - Chapter 3 Henderson, John 1,041 1 0.96

... And if things got a wee bit tousy from the variety of ‘big-yins’ who would muscle into such evening confrontations, ...
Refuge [Content label: serious] Paisley, Janet 22,040 17 0.77

... room, welded to the fireplace. I thought they had a dog, a big dog. CAROLANNE: Oh Maggie. MAGGIE: What are we living ...
... A bucket for a toilet. This house is a (SHE INDICATES BIG) - he's a doctor! She said he'd padlock the collar. ...
... aboot the weans, you think? AGNES: Och, aye. Her ain are big noo. Ages wi your Gordon the laddie? SADIE: Near 'nuff. ...
... Oh great. I'll get to play in the playroom now. SADIE: Big wean. There's burgers for your tea. (GORDON HEADS FOR THE ...
... RUBBING HER RIBS) GORDON: Hey Agnes, you could've been big. AGNES: Son, ah um big. Whit's mair, ah've ayewis been big ...
Scots in Hawaii [Content label: serious] Smith, Rob Mcclure 4,470 4 0.89

... still nursing mega-hangovers the next afternoon when the Big Island spooled beneath them in grids of brown and green ...
... from Chicago who was most definitely checking out Bethia big time. You couldn’t blame him really. She was wearing this ...
... how he was an Assistant Professor of Astronomy, off to the Big Island to work for a couple of weeks on one of the ...
... chugged a good quart of red on the plane, her being a big believer in hair of the dog, among other myths. She ...
Scotspik de Rusett, Wendy 890 1 1.12

... house. We say hoose. You say mouse. We say moose. You say big. We say muckle. There’s a moose loose aboot the hoose, An ...
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 ...
Scots Tung Wittins 102 Fairnie, Robert 2,409 1 0.42

... passed it doon tae me. He also hud an elephant, Wi great big massive lugs, It sat doon in the corner, Beside his fluffy ...
Scots Tung Wittins 103 Fairnie, Robert 2,634 1 0.38

... they aa end up suggestin they're named efter some local big hoose? Weel it's a richt disgrace bit the fowk wha hae had ...
Scots Tung Wittins 106 Fairnie, Robert 3,978 1 0.25

... wi spoken words cause it gart mony o thaim tae feel like big jessies when they haed tae speak in "polite" English. She ...
Scots Tung Wittins 108 Fairnie, Robert 2,828 1 0.35

... proponed that it wad be a guid thing for the Executive tae big up a strategy on Scots an he felt that the CPG shuid tak a ...
Scots Tung Wittins 111 Fairnie, Robert 2,503 1 0.40

... wey. Ae maimber pyntit oot hou important it wis tae big up ae data base o aw the Scots language teachin graith ...
Scots Tung Wittins 114 Fairnie, Robert 2,652 1 0.38

... whaur there fowk that wants it." The SNP promised tae big on Mike Russell's Gaelic Language Bill that rin oot o time ...
Scots Tung Wittins 116 Fairnie, Robert 2,699 1 0.37

... particlar wis gey ee-catchin. This particlar poster haed a big picter o Oor Wullie on it an the wordin alangside said:- ...
Scots Tung Wittins 117 Fairnie, Robert 2,258 1 0.44

... hay lying in the swathe, the kirn to kirn, an the peats to big? Glaikit giglets! Do ye think to get through the warld ...
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 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 ...

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