Sentence examples for there were tin from inspiring English sources
There were tin ex-votos and folk art baskets and beaded Zulu dolls.
He adjusts his tracksuit bottoms around his pot belly and then says with gravity: "Before there were hotels, there was tin".
There are tin buckets and plant pots as light fittings; mini wheelbarrows and gardening forks suspended from the walls; wooden planking and old hessian sacks, everywhere.
There are tins of baked beans less canned than the laughter on Wizards... but in a way, that simply adds to this show's retro 1970s family comedy feel.
Behind the patch of grass there were rows of tin garages, and behind the garages was the dusty sky criss-crossed by wires.
In Kismaayo there were a meat-tinning factory, a tannery, and a modern fish factory.
There were full tin ashtrays on the tables, so I tried to make up for it.
"We sat at tables with no real tablecloths, and there were these tins — like workers' lunch pails — each containing a sandwich and a cookie and a fruit cup," she recalled.
There is a tin can painted red, a china egg, stones from a local stream, a segment of a cartwheel and a piece of guttering.
In Hilda's basket there was olive oil, a tin of cannellini beans, fresh pasta, a lemon, a bottle of white wine.
