1.   Each had a balcony at first-floor level on which geraniums bloomed in old tins.

2.   Henry was rooting about among some old biscuit tins in the pantry when the phone rang in the hall.

3.   Old tins and coils of wire were stacked willy-nilly in the corners, along with odd-shaped bits of metal and jam jars with nails in them.

4.   And there, amid old biscuit tins and burnt-out vacuum tubes, they stumbled across a chunk of solid gold.

5.   She also designs gardens for roofs and terraces using old galvanized tins and old crates.