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1. sitting in the shade under its corrugated tin roof because it was one of those early
2. exposed wood shaving floor of her tin cell yard, feeling as though she ran under the
3. ramshackle collection of maybe 100 tin shacks clustered in the desert between a pocket of towering rock mountains
4. The same bent and battered tin tray slid across the floor
5. I measured time in solid blocks of obscurity punctuated by the slide of battered tin across concrete
6. ’ She said reaching for the biscuit tin and totally missing my frozen look, thank goodness
7. After he had driven his black beauty of a car out onto the lane and closed the back gate, she took a tin of something fishy out of the under sink cupboard , sat down in one of her rickety old kitchen chairs, the one next to the gently warming range, and poured herself a thick measure of her favourite Scotch
8. scraping empty tin on stone, edging the still air,
9. tin pressed, chipped and dented,
10. Your voice, tin thin and reedy,
11. when the tin soldiers come with rifle butts,
12. of the storm, coppers and tin, lighting coals
13. on hot tin teas, the late arriving guests at breakfast,
14. The tin man stares out through
15. Around the corner from a large plastic cash-register of a restaurant called 'Neon', I saw a little boy propped against the wall of a bank and sitting on an old sheet next to a tin box containing a few coins
16. there is a tin of white paint
17. He was proud to show his lifetime souvenirs; they fell from books, wallets, tin boxes and jacket pockets
18. We could be in a tin shed in some New England tribal zone if we can’t see the universe we’re hurtling thru
19. ” Of course he knew they could still see this same image if they were running on processors housed in a tin shed
20. “You’re forgetting we could be running under diagnostics in a tin shed in Scranton
21. ” She had spent the first years of the afterlife in a tin shed in Scranton, until she joined the Christial Church and the expedition of Gordon’s Lamp
22. But she couldn’t prove they were not still in that tin shed with the whole expedition to 61 Cygni and back synthesized and fed in
23. There’s some salad … what can I have with that? Anything in the tinned line? Ah yes, a tin of tuna in mayo … that would go nicely with the salad and maybe a jacket potato … sorted! Feeling very righteous after my session at the gym and carrying a plate of healthy dinner, I mooch into the lounge … don’t much fancy TV … a book it is! By nine thirty, I am nodding, so call it a day and go to bed
24. Potatoes safely in the oven, I check the beef is doing as it should and that the Yorkshire pudding tin is ready to go into the oven to heat
25. Woodbine tin in his pocket and lit it, clearly in the mood for
26. But he wouldn’t let her even open the paint tin until the walls had been washed down properly
27. She is, apparently, generous with the tea bags and the biscuit tin
28. You have to remember I have never seen a garden before, and these are very different from Earth's farms, as different as the tin can in space where I was grown
29. What was the significance of that speck of tin compared to this reality? Besides that, he was in no condition to report
30. “No, that one’s the truth, the RNAcid trip is that I came in a tin can from YingolNeerie?”
31. The tin can announcement jabbered on
32. Trip lines attached to tin cans filled with stones
33. A sixth part of the gross produce may be reckoned the average rent of the tin mines of Cornwall, the most fertile that are known in the world, as we are told by the Rev
34. The tax of the duke of Cornwall upon tin is supposed to amount to more than five per cent
35. or one twentieth part of the value ; and whatever may be his proportion, it would naturally, too, belong to the proprietor of the mine, if tin was duty free
36. But if you add one twentieth to one sixth, you will find that the whole average rent of the tin mines of Cornwall, was to the whole average rent of the silver mines of Peru, as thirteen to twelve
37. Even this tax upon silver, too, gives more temptation to smuggling than the tax of one twentieth upon tin; and smuggling must be much easier in the precious than in the bulky commodity
38. Rent, therefore, it is probable, makes a greater part of the price of tin at the most fertile tin mines than it does of silver at the most fertile silver mines in the world
39. In waste and uninclosed lands, any person who discovers a tin mine may mark out its limits to a certain extent, which is called bounding a mine
40. A silver boiler is more cleanly than a lead, copper, or tin one; and the same quality would render a gold boiler still better than a silver one
41. She searched every car that she came across and, in the late afternoon, she found a tin of sweetcorn and a box of Tampons under the passenger seat of an old Rover
42. She put the Tampons into her bag and opened the tin using one of her scalpels
43. Fizzicist I used what was in the tin MARKED SUGAR!”
44. It was put upon the same footing with gold and silver mines, which, without a special clause in the charter, were never supposed to be comprehended in the general grant of the lands, though mines of lead, copper, tin, and coal were, as things of smaller consequence
45. They flattered themselves that veins of those metals might in many places be found, as large and as abundant as those which are commonly found of lead, or copper, or tin, or iron
46. While I waited for the softening up process I delved inside my pack again and pulled out a tin of bully beef and a tin of Ticklers jam these were our dry rations
47. I reached for my clasp knife which was in my pocket and then opened the tin opener from it I then set to opening my bully when I had finished I peeled the lid back and saw what was inside
48. In the heat which must have been easily a hundred degrees if not more the bully had melted so that instead of having a nice firm chunk of bully I could slice and put onto my biscuit I had a melted grey floating greasy mess in the tin
49. Never mind I thought and opened my jam which happened to be raspberry but just like the bully the heat had melted it and all I had to show was a sickly sugary goo in the tin
50. The pancakes were made by adding a small amount of flour and water together then you smeared a mess tin lid with either bacon fat or any grease you could get your hands on
1. · Instead of tinned fruits and juices, use fresh fruit and juices
2. Tinned soup for lunch
3. What, then, are these unnatural foods to be avoided? These are the refined, processed, tinned and packaged foods, the worst offenders being white sugar, white flour, white rice and any other food from which the vitality has been refined out
4. Where once a stout Edwardian family had warmed themselves by the great living room fire and eaten roast meats on Sundays in the capacious dining room, there now existed within these walls a selection of small private worlds inhabited by transparent people who warmed themselves next to two-bar electric fires, who shared bathrooms and cooked tinned meals on single ring electric cookers
5. There’s some salad … what can I have with that? Anything in the tinned line? Ah yes, a tin of tuna in mayo … that would go nicely with the salad and maybe a jacket potato … sorted! Feeling very righteous after my session at the gym and carrying a plate of healthy dinner, I mooch into the lounge … don’t much fancy TV … a book it is! By nine thirty, I am nodding, so call it a day and go to bed
6. They breakfasted on tinned beans heated up in the fireplace, washed down with mineral water and strong black coffee
7. What do you say to bacon and tea! Or would tinned beef
8. Blitz was now off duty and being fed tinned rations
9. Well scrub a medium sized carrot and grate it to a pulp on an ordinary tinned bread grater
10. They had a breakfast of coffee, tinned grapefruit and cereal
11. The crate they had left this time contained only a supply of vitamins and nutritional supplements, a dozen cans of tinned meat and, as if it was the most important thing for survival, rolls and rolls of toilet paper
12. Using tinned food, they prepared a cold meal and drank the juice of the tinned fruit
13. Moving to the next pallet, he found it loaded with boxes of tinned sardines
14. Staples of beans, sugar and tinned tomatoes were distributed to needy
15. good supply of tinned and pre-packed food
16. Nevertheless, she finished what little food she could make out of the dry food and tinned goods in the pantry
17. He had been prepared for whims, but had always supposed they would be tinned pine apples
18. The staff put tinned dog food into four dog bowls and the
19. The masses were sold tinned food because the industrial barons did not want them to grow and can their own food
20. The reverend Dr Salmon: tinned salmon
21. Well tinned in there
22. Toil-worn women, most of them dressed in other women's shabby cast-off clothing - weary, tired-looking mothers who fed their children for the most part on adulterated tea, tinned skimmed milk and bread and margarine, grew furious as they thought of the wicked Socialists who were trying to bring Ruin upon them
23. Healy, Mr Justice Fitzgibbon, John Howard Parnell, the reverend Tinned Salmon, Professor Joly, Mrs Breen, Denis Breen, Theodore Purefoy, Mina Purefoy, the Westland Row postmistress, C
24. Here much muttered conversation ensued, and the Mole only heard bits of it, such as—'Fresh, mind!—no, a pound of that will do—see you get Buggins's, for I won't have any other—no, only the best—if you can't get it there, try somewhere else—yes, of course, home-made, no tinned stuff—well then, do the best you can!' Finally, there was a chink of coin passing from paw to paw, the field-mouse was provided with an ample basket for his purchases, and off he hurried, he and his lantern
25. I hear my Nana busying herself in the kitchen, preparing a plate of tongue for my tea, followed by a bowl of tinned tangerines that curdles the Carnation milk poured over them
26. sack, but nothing was discovered but a cache of tinned foods and cigarettes stolen from the quartermaster's store
27. Tea came, with milk out of a tin; the potatoes seemed to be fresh, but the carrots and the turnips were evidently tinned
28. The tunnel sank through commissaries of tinned films to reliquaries for the nameless
29. They were tinned and prisoned dreams
30. He spread two gray blankets and put out a little collection of tinned foods
31. Or maybe he would bring Mr Jacobs, the grocer, whose clothes were rich with lettuce, celery, tomatoes, and the secret tinned and hidden smell of the red demons stamped on cans of deviled ham
32. Jacobs, the grocer, whose clothes were rich with lettuce, celery, tomatoes, and the secret tinned and hidden smell of the red demons stamped on cans of deviled ham
33. This pantry opened into a kind of wash-up kitchen, and in this was firewood; there was also a cupboard, in which we found nearly a dozen of burgundy, tinned soups and salmon, and two tins of biscuits
1. She cleared a space amongst the old newspapers and empty tins of cat food
2. evidence of cats, namely the empty tins of food, scratch marks on the back of the
3. Johnny pointed at the tins littering the table and asked, “Cats? Can’t see any of
4. Back in the house, I calmly unpack the shopping and put it all away, the blue box sitting on the table drawing my eyes as I put tins away in the cupboard and packets on the shelf where they belong
5. smothering dented tins of matt
6. Bougainvillea, morning glory, hollyhocks, dusty white acanthus, all waving and grinning from everyday, ordinary tins brightened with casual splashes of paint - they just wouldn't look the same in Britain
7. "Oh, you know tins, a few bits in the freezer, the usual stuff
8. Her mother often got hurt when the few tins of food she’d been able to buy were stolen from her on her walk home
9. A bit later, having changed out of my office kit and into something decidedly sloppy and comfortable, I stand in the kitchen … food … need something to eat … what’s in the freezer? … don’t fancy that … or that … oh dear … is there anything in any of those tins … no, not really … cooking for one can be pretty mindless at times
10. Cheap plastic children’s toys, tins of no-name chilli con carne, overpriced cans of soda and budget birthday cards sold at upscale prices
11. He took Captain Melstone to one side as we watched the Engineers tying ropes on to the hooks then onto these they tied the water cans that were made from old five gallon paraffin tins
12. Every time he would cut a strand the bloody bully beef tins would rattle like a load of cow bells
13. However what was only minutes later but seemed like hours the final strand was cut but the tins kept rattling making us jump but eventually we made it back to our own trench without the Turks firing a shot
14. Anyway we were sitting in the bottom of the trench Elijah, Eli, Johnny, Ted Wallace and I making bombs out of jam tins which is what we used on the peninsula
15. “Bloody hell they must be handing them out with bully beef tins if you’ve got another one”, and I grinned at him
16. These were the ones that back in camp would miss breakfast for an extra half hour in bed but not here and as we handed our mess tins over to be filled we could hear the crump thump of shells on the wind again
17. We finished our breakfast off with a fag and then washed our mess-tins and utensils then we begged some hot water off the cooks in old kerosene tins so we could have a wash and shave in relative comfort
18. Money availed nothing, and on several occasions, when I rode out with the few tins of beef and the hardtack I could secure for special cases, I saw the fortunate recipients offered and refuse gold pieces for a single biscuit, and one man produced twenty five dollars to buy a can of beef
19. Mess tins and water bottles completed the kit and that was about it
20. After totaling the entire place, all she had come up with was a couple cans of tuna, and – you’re not going to believe this, but I was there and saw it with my own eyes – when she opened the tins, it wasn’t fish: they were crammed with one hundred dollar bills
21. The whole, horrible scene was rehearsing in her mind when, just prior to boarding, Sal handed her two tins of tuna
22. Pulling the last of the tins from around his legs, Piers suddenly pushed them across the mattress at her
23. Grabbing the plastic sack, Piers hurried from the bothy, the tins strapped around his legs and feet making muted chinking sounds as he walked
24. She smiled toothily and in hushed tones, related the episode of the stolen tuna tins, the involvement of Beth Tierney and the prostitute’s subsequent revelations
25. “Oh, that reminds me!” he said, reaching for his attaché, “I almost forgot, I have recovered something of yours,” and set on the table a plastic bag containing emptied tuna tins and bound stacks of US currency
26. The larger pieces of luggage were in the trunk, together with a few bottles of wine and cognac that Hermann insisted that they bring with them, and some tins of caviar and other delicacies
27. The other two tins contained seawater and kelp, in addition to some large clams and
28. The packets and tins were moving at such a slow pace that
29. The cake tins should be lined with greased paper
30. ixture in tins and bake for about 10 minutes in a hot oven
31. the larger discarded food tins and rope he’d rigged it so that water
32. stacked full of a variety of foodstuffs in tins and packets
33. greasing and lining the bottom of the tins
34. The food and drink were in a big box, for the children did not mean to starve while they were on the island! They had brought loaves of bread, butter, biscuits, jam, tins of fruit, ripe plums, bottles of ginger-beer, a kettle to make tea, and anything else they could think of! Stephen and Justin staggered up the cliff with the heavy box
35. Who"s getting dinner?" We tossed for it and I drove the couple of kilometres to the nearest store, where I stocked up on tins of ham, fresh apples, bananas, bread, biscuits, and a crate of bottled water
36. It was a huge box containing meats, cakes, tins of biscuits and all sorts of Christmas fare
37. Grease muffin tins; pile batter high and sprinkle with sugar
38. Then the last drawer - this one was stocked with condoms, lollipops and 3 tins of baby powder…what disgusting rituals were these items being used for?
39. Elise had taken several empty tins to the nearest water and finding an undisturbed spot meticulously collected the surface water
40. The rancher had a fire going when Elise returned, a few opened tins spread on the hand brushed ground
41. Cheesey and Graham take the cans with big smiles and with no thanks they open the tins and take a large swig of beer and belch contently; almost in harmony!
42. Jane checked the fridge, a bottle of red wine, half a dozen tins of lager, a few eggs, pack of bacon, butter and milk, past it’s sell by date
43. There was nothing she could find except some tins of food
44. Followed by the cook and Sylvie Comeau, still pushing her platform, Jack brought the cheese to the kitchen and put them on top of a counter, then searched through the platform’s load and grabbed a number of tins of corned beef, putting them on the counter as well
45. Gently twist the pastry cases off the tins and set aside to cool completely
46. The amount of glaze should be generous so that it fills the tins and keeps the strawberries in place
47. While not a large one, it was surprisingly heavy, as it contained a gun belt with Nancy Laplante’s Glock 17 pistol, lots of spare 9mm ammunition, a full water bottle with carrier and mess tins and a dozen tins of canned meat
48. The first step is to blast the tins with a laser accelerator
49. Once her tears had dried out, Tammy got up and took out of the crate one of the tins of corned beef, craving for the meat she had not eaten for over ten months
50. (As scrap, paraffin tins were in African eyes a most precious commodity and would be begged or borrowed ahead of any other unguarded or unwanted item in the European household