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1,574,880 total words in matching documents (34.33% of corpus)

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...Auld Zimmery [Content label: serious] Kydd, Robbie 73,728 56 0.76

... She explains this to me off-handedly and adds, 'Ma boy-friend says I dinnae have tae work, but I'm no gaun on the ...
... When Fiona goes. A hand to grip. I glimpsed her boy-friend today, from the hallway, threateningly clanking and ...
... warmly. You-know-who won't like that. Andy is a bad boy. I don't know if I can write the next bit, but I must, for ...
... what we're doing, Fiona and I. 'Punkie,' I ask, 'your boy-friend?' 'Wha're ye cryin Punkie?' 'I used to call my wife ...
... and lie down under my duvet and fall asleep like a good boy. A more-or-less good boy. A bad boy, to be honest, But bad ...
Scottish Parliament: Official Report (27/03/03) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 52,991 6 0.11

... 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and even beyond. I started as an office boy at 16 years of age. In those days, it was not possible to ...
... days, it was not possible to be promoted beyond an office boy until it was seen whether the call came for national ...
... of them was the head clerk, who had started as an office boy in the same firm when Queen Victoria was in the last few ...
... Presiding Officer: You have one minute. Mrs McIntosh: Oh boy. In that case, I pay tribute to previous contributors ...
... Piraeus have made other bids. However, even an Edinburgh boy such as I knows that Glasgow can readily see off that ...
Scottish Parliament: Official Report (07/09/00) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 52,710 1 0.02

... of Scots in the Borders. He told the tale about a little boy who said to him, "Please, sir, does oor real teacher ken ...
Buchan Words and Ways Fenton, Alexander 52,521 17 0.32

... tae tak butter an' jam on a biscuit', But for a growing boy, there's little comfort in being told such things. He ...
... you were mocked. And what would a visitor make of the boy who came into my father's shop and asked for 'a pair o' ...
... me of one of the more frightening experiences I had as a boy. I was with two other young lads at Upper Pitglassie and ...
... for pennies. They were singin 'Where is my wandering boy tonight?' when Gillan, steppin backlins at e time, geed ...
... I am heartily glad now that I had the interest even as a boy to catch and keep as much as I could. Fowk are aye gabbin ...
Mountain Music - Chapters 1-4 Mackay, Sheila 50,638 2 0.04

... to this day. For Salvador, Vyborni was the beautiful boy of classical antiquity incarnate, whose image was all the ...
... the rage among European aristocracy after The Benevenuto Boy - the first century BC sculpture found at Herculaneum, his ...
Travel journal: USSR 852 35,187 4 0.11

... three days per week, helping a 7-year-old Anglo-Russian boy improve his reading to the point where he can gain ...
... to Winchester Public School. She has just started with the boy, Alex [CENSORED: surname], whose father is on secondment ...
... wins out. The ballet on Tuesday was a bit like that: boy meets girl, they fall in love and jump about a lot, aged ...
... partly because she hopes her children, a girl of 14 and a boy of about 7, will pick up some foreign language. The girl ...
The Mossflow Holton, Brian 33,939 2 0.06

... amang Shi Jin’s cottars wis Quarto Wang, an he wis the boy ti answer back at onie officiars; he wis that snell-gabbit ...
... laddie! Whit’s in yir buckets?” “Guid drink”, says the boy. “Whit is’t the bucketfu?” “Ay, ye like yir joke, freir.” ...
Scottish Parliament: Official Report (26/09/01) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 33,438 2 0.06

... Scots officially to children who really spoke Scots. A wee boy put up his hand and said, "Please Sir, does oor real ...
... we need to continue with that progress. I hope that my wee boy has more success with modern languages than I did. 17:48 ...
A Study into the Knowledge and Use of Scots Amongst Primary Pupils on Upper Deeside Blackhall, Sheena 29,793 2 0.07

... spoke English in the interview setting, but as one boy pointed out 'I don't know you', and the interviews with ...
... is not the language of their children. One primary seven boy was desperate to know 'how he had scored', so he could ...
Pillars of Society Thirkell, Alison 29,032 1 0.03

... You shouldn't put such outlandish notions into the boy's head, Mr Thomson. HARRY: No, I daresay. He's to turn ...
Interview with Bernice Sibbald for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 28,837 8 0.28

... F1189: //The glamour! [laugh]// F1680: Oh boy! [laugh] F1189: Now the wee house that you had when ...
... and I think of the Dean and Stockbridge, and I think "Oh boy!" I'd love to, what I'd give to be back there now. ...
... [inaudible], did she? [laugh]// F1680: Oh boy! [laugh] The youngest one's the only one who never ...
... someone to come to, F1189: Mm. F1680: because er boy it was a a bit of a shock. F1189: All the the sort of ...
... //[laugh]// F1680: //I know. [inhale]// Oh boy. F1189: Now said you went to Burns suppers. F1680: ...
Interview with Robert Bruce for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 28,169 7 0.25

... F1189: Mmhm. M1682: He actually join- he was a boy seaman he joined the Navy when he was fifteen I think. ...
... he would've joined the Navy.// And then he served as a boy seaman which doesn't count as your years in the Navy ...
... M1682: //Yeah.// F1189: You were a clever boy. //[laugh]// M1682: //[laugh]// Yeah. F1189: ...
... there were a lot of demands on you as //as a young boy.// M1682: //There we- there was a lot of// yeah ...
... yeah. F1189: Now the ones you had when you you were a boy M1682: Yeah. F1189: ehm did they come to you as ...
The Quarry Blackhall, Sheena 23,932 1 0.04

... mother): b.197 Big Tam Laggeran (a drug dealer: Myra’s boy friend) Neil Duguid (adopted son of Myra Anderson): b.1990 ...
Interview 21: Suhayl Saadi N/A Audio 23,059 1 0.04

... yeah.// M762: erm and and you know, it was a wee boy thing, you know, //as well, you know, Tolkien,// F963: ...
The Annals of Arbuthnott Part One Williamson, Isabella 23,042 1 0.04

... three feein' markets - always on market days. As a young boy, when John Watson's family flitted to the Wairds from ...
Guts Barron, Charles 22,515 3 0.13

... ask to be lee’d te, mither. Jist pit it doon tae your wee boy’s lucky charm. GEORGIE (To audience.) ‘At means he’s been ...
... 30. An’ you took them, without thinkin’ to check. Bright boy. They must think you’re their Santy Claus. DOD I’m sorry, ...
... Ma! GEORGIE (putting on a “mummy comforting her wee boy” voice) Dinna worry, my loon. I’ll tell the bobbies that ...
The Tragedie o Macbeth Purves, David 22,141 2 0.09

... SIWARD, his son SETON, an officer attending on Macbeth BOY, son to Macduff An English Doctor A Scottish Doctor An ...
... learning leit, list lichtlie, belittle loue, love loun, boy lounder, thrash lourd, heavy lousum, loving lowden, calm ...
Refuge [Content label: serious] Paisley, Janet 22,040 6 0.27

... with, Carolanne? (PAUSE, WITH GROWING ANGER) The wee boy's two, and the baby, six months. He'd put them in the room ...
... BOARD TO TAKE TO KITCHEN. UPSTAIRS A BABY CRIES AND A WEE BOY CALLS MUMMY, MUMMY. BETH DOESN'T REGISTER THE CHILDREN) ...
... BETH) She all right? SADIE: Right as rain. She's got a wee boy, and a bairn. GORDON: Oh great. I'll get to play in the ...
... right, I suppose. GORDON: Great. (TO AGNES) What's the wee boy's name? AGNES: Timothy. GORDON: Right. (HE EXITS. SADIE ...
... them. David's sixteen. They wouldn't let him come here. A boy that age counts as a man. And men aren't allowed. I ...
Interview with Mary A Ronnie, Part 2, for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 21,283 4 0.19

... //building,// F1189: //Uh-huh.// F1190: but boy was it hard //work, you know, if somebody asked you a ...
... F1189: //Mm.// F1190: You know, "A Suitable Boy", //for instance - and I was absolutely fascinated// ...
... What did he say? We took some time to find a suitable boy." F1189: [laugh] F1190: And he used this ...
... they're, they're// F1190: //Mm.// F1189: sort of, boy's own //stories, but [?]in fact[/?], uh-huh, uh-huh.// ...
The Borth’ick Waitter Rodger, Matt 21,032 1 0.05

... Davie Riddle whae played the bagpipes wi mei; i the Hawick Boy’s Brigade Pipe Band. Hei marriet ae lass frae Lanarkshire ...

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