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53 occurrences of telly.
34 documents matching criteria (2.58% of corpus)
307,718 total words in matching documents (6.71% of corpus)
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| All That Glisters | Donovan, Anne | 2,713 | 1 | 0.37 | |
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... ah knew there wis sumpn wrang. It was that quiet, nae telly, nae radio on in the kitchen. Ma mammy wis sittin on the ... |
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| ...Auld Zimmery [Content label: serious] | Kydd, Robbie | 73,728 | 6 | 0.08 | |
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... I'm glad Beastie is here with me. We could switch on the telly if we wanted to, but we don't want to. Me and Beastie are ... ... but we don't want to. Me and Beastie are fed up with the telly. We don't want to read my Ladybird book either. It's the ... ... she's not difficult to be a nurse to. I just switch on the telly and she goggles at it without moving, nibbling her ... ... for pecking people with. I've never seen one, even on the telly, but I know I could draw one with my felt pen. Then I ... ... that conference. Me and Beastie sit down in front of the telly alongside Morag. We are sad and puzzled and thirsty. We ... |
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| Awfy thochts: The closemouth jottings of Wullie MacKersall | Glen, Michael Hamish | 3,176 | 1 | 0.31 | |
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... aw deid, Aye, every felly. Aw Ah can dae is Watch the telly.' UNCOOPERATIVE Yon Betty's maw, Ye hae tae chivvy Tae ask ... |
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| BBC Voices Recording: Perth | N/A | Audio | 17,146 | 1 | 0.06 |
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... F1024: //[laugh]// F1025: //An I watch the telly and I get up an make// F1026: //[laugh]// F1027: ... |
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| BBC Voices Recording: Stirling | N/A | Audio | 14,324 | 1 | 0.07 |
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... sleeping.// F1144: well if I ever fall asleep watchin telly or something like that, erm and the kids say "Oh mum, ... |
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| Conversation 11: Two female students chatting on various topics [Content label: lesser] | N/A | Video | 8,349 | 2 | 0.24 |
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... really disappointed. F810: [sniff] I was watchin telly this morning, and we had a choice of tennis - it was ... ... F809: saw the interview where they were both on the telly, and it was him and the millionaire that pays for ... |
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| Conversation 14: Two male students on university life [Content label: serious] | N/A | Video | 6,842 | 1 | 0.15 |
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... oh fu- I'll tell you one thing, right, I was flickin the telly erm the other night, er no, last night and this whole ... |
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| Conversation 25: Couple from Auchenblae talking about local varieties of language | N/A | Audio | 5,757 | 1 | 0.17 |
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... was it really opened her eyes that seein pictures on the telly about the tsunami's nae like bein there, //like it's, ... |
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| Conversation 26: Two females from Glasgow talking about weddings | N/A | Audio | 5,779 | 3 | 0.52 |
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... and watch// F631: //Yeah.// //Yeah, or// F689: //telly.// F631: play music videos or something, but it was ... ... F689: someone, it's "Can you turn that off an put the telly up so I can hear it" [laugh] //[laugh] cause it was ... ... idea, cause we've seen loads o sort o documentaries on the telly, about ehm like chickens, that was the one. I think it ... |
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| Conversation 33: Two female students on Scotland, and University education | N/A | Video | 11,628 | 1 | 0.09 |
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... you do your things and I want to watch something on the telly, and it's like, "Mum, how can you watch that?", "Well, you ... |
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| Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 03, recording 2: Play-Doh | N/A | Audio | 6,928 | 1 | 0.14 |
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... rub-a-dub-dub. F1113: Oh what's that on the telly? F1114: It is he's cook- fishes. F1113: Oh, he's ... |
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| Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 03, recording 3: Getting dressed and household chores | N/A | Audio | 4,939 | 2 | 0.40 |
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... A little bubble and a huge bubble. Just like on the telly. See? Now. F1114: I watch some telly. F1113: ... ... like on the telly. See? Now. F1114: I watch some telly. F1113: Is that good? F1114: [humming] ... |
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| Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 05, recording 1: eating tea and playing with baby brother | N/A | Audio | 1,975 | 1 | 0.51 |
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... addresses baby] Are you clever? Are you watching the telly? So fitt's Cracker going to get the night? Carrots and ... |
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| Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 18, recording 2: making macaroni cheese, drawing, playing with dolls and looking at photos | N/A | Audio | 6,826 | 1 | 0.15 |
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... through here? F1111: Well, we'll need to put off that telly. //There's nobody watching it. Switch it off.// F1112: ... |
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| Craiters: 14 - E Black Things | Fenton, Alexander | 1,111 | 1 | 0.90 | |
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... e standert lamp aside's tae brichten e print, an maybe e telly on tee. Weel, ye couldna be keepin yer e'en on e lines aa ... |
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| Deadly Weapons [Content label: serious] | Grainger, Cecilia | 15,826 | 1 | 0.06 | |
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... STEVE. Back in the hoose; sittin wi a can watchin the telly… STEW. Steve man…Steve if his death notice is in the ... |
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| Dipper: 35 - Fair Cop | Begg, Dr James A | 2,228 | 1 | 0.45 | |
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... must hae been watchin ower mony Yankee cop movies on the telly! The fella, shakin like a jeely, did as he wis tellt. He ... |
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| Easterhouse [Content label: serious] | Smith, Rob Mcclure | 4,644 | 1 | 0.22 | |
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... eh?" "Oh, it's not that bad really." "It looks bad oan the telly. Gangsta rappers an serial killers an that dumb President ... |
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| Extracts from weblog [Content label: serious] | Rimbaud, Dee | 8,258 | 1 | 0.12 | |
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... change in my life. I've stopped watching The News on the telly. I stopped nearly a month ago. I went total cold turkey: ... |
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| Fat Boy Swim | Forde, Catherine | 4,077 | 1 | 0.25 | |
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... was just as clued up as they were on films, on books, on telly, even on sport. And as for music... Jimmy sighed. It was ... |
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| Interview with David Thomson for Scottish Readers Remember Project | N/A | Audio | 20,274 | 3 | 0.15 |
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... F1189: //Mm.// M1193: I watch the odd game on, on telly and Sky //TV// F1189: //Mm.// M1193: show the ... ... watch F1189: Mmhm. M1193: those programmes on telly, F1189: Mmhm. M1193: ehm okay, that might not be ... ... A lot of the stuff I used, that we've watched on telly, I thought, hell, I must read a bit more about that. ... |
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| Interview with Margaret Ritchie for Scottish Readers Remember Project | N/A | Audio | 24,558 | 1 | 0.04 |
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... unusual// F1192: //Oh if// F1189: in not having a telly or, or F1192: Yeah, //probably a// F1189: //Were ... |
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| Overheard at the Chippie: Big brither, wee brither | Blackhall, Sheena | 142 | 1 | 7.04 | |
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... play wi Sean? It's dark. We'll jist ging hame an watch the telly. Dannie can I hae thon can o coke? I wint it! Wint it! Yer ... |
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| Preparing to Meet the Minotaur | Blackhall, Sheena | 8,944 | 1 | 0.11 | |
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... on a date!" It's dark. We'lljist ging hame an watch the telly. "Dan, can I hae a coke? I wint it! Wint it!" Yer jist a ... |
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| Pub review of The Living Room, Glasgow | English, Paul | 696 | 2 | 2.87 | |
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... to sex were just two things that made me shout at the telly whenever my flatmate forced me to endure it on Friday ... ... influence is when it's seen anywhere other than on the telly doesn't mean to say that everyone else agrees. And as long ... |
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| Refuge [Content label: serious] | Paisley, Janet | 22,040 | 1 | 0.05 | |
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... Beth's here oan her ain. Make a noise. Gordon, pit the telly oan. Sing, talk. Make like there's a hunner o us. Come ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 128 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,464 | 1 | 0.41 | |
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... tae Hugh Henry the nixt time he's on the wireless or the telly. The Education Meinister, Peter Peacock, wis on Radio ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 162 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,130 | 1 | 0.47 | |
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... yaised bi STV tae forder general advertisin on its ain telly programs, maks gey clivver yuiss o a play on the Scots ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 167 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,335 | 2 | 0.86 | |
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... never lairn an fitba commentators on the wireless or the telly is juist aboot the warst o the lot. Hou aften hiv we been ... ... playin France at the Parc-des-Princes in Paris, on the telly. Efter beatin thaim 1-0 at Hampden, the pundits wisnae ... |
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| SKARRS | Forde, Catherine | 5,474 | 3 | 0.55 | |
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... 'Songs of Praise' came on, he'd fling the remote at the telly. 'Bollocks!' I'd hear him through the wall when I was ... ... for nothing more than thinking, and I'm looking at the telly, or my tranny's on and I hear a word - Japanese. Prisoner. ... ... about werenae from battle. Any combat I've seen's been on telly. David Niven, John Wayne, Kenneth More doing soldiers ... |
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| Temples Fae Creels | McNeil, Andrew | 1,663 | 1 | 0.60 | |
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... the break-oot Massed in the waa. In a crowded corner The telly sells ma car The ane A dinna hae Wi sex an status. Watchin ... |
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| The Heavenly Cow of Thebes [Content label: serious] | Blackhall, Sheena | 9,752 | 1 | 0.10 | |
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... them into fairy queens Which flew ten times around the telly Frightening to fits her Aunty Nelly. When Pa grew cross ... |
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| TV critic review column: TV's Ditched as I Switched on to Partying | English, Paul | 520 | 5 | 9.62 | |
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... TV reviewer's equivalent of his wedding night - I slung my telly a New Year rubber ear. Let me start 2007 with a confession ... ... responses and insights of staggering genius in response to telly. I don't. And I don't spend every night sitting in front ... ... And I don't spend every night sitting in front of the telly either... The busy wee elves at the TV stations send ... ... otherwise known as Sky +. So my date with Hogmanay telly came not with the warm fuzz of drunkenness, but instead ... ... La Bird's gear this year, I was briefly reunited with my telly after the bells, and wur ain Paolo Nutini's version of ... |
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| TV critic review column: Wright Way Has a Fat Chance of Slimming Kids | English, Paul | 472 | 1 | 2.12 | |
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... to get gruel out of school. Now everyone's copying his telly technique, almost as enthusiastically as they mimic those ... |
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