bairn

Example Sentences

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"My dogs were better fed than some of the bairns running in the streets," Mr Shand says.

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In their two league meetings last season, the bairns from Gorgie came out on top.

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"If I hadn't seen the pictures of the bairns, I wouldn't be sitting with you now, and I just looked at them and thought, 'God, I can't leave them bairns'," she says.

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"If the police had done their jobs in the first place and Nikki had got justice I might have had some kind of life with my bairns and grandbairns," she said.

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He recalled that officers met a woman in the street in a "distressed state" who cried out "Oh God! It's the bairn, they've found the bairn" at about 10:30 on 8 October.

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