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Simple sentences
Tom didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
Tom seems to be contemptuous of ordinary people.
It was out of the ordinary for Chris to behave so roughly.
That is beneath ordinary decency.
It will do for ordinary purposes.
That was no ordinary storm.
The colors of the pattern are very ordinary.
The new theory is too abstract for ordinary people.
You cannot solve this problem in an ordinary way.
This encyclopedia is beyond the reach of an ordinary student.
I did nothing out of the ordinary.
He is no ordinary man.
In hard times like this, no ordinary effort can get our company out of the red.
They as well as you are ordinary people.
I have no interest in ordinary people.
He is just an ordinary person.
Sunday is not an ordinary day to me.
His ideas were too far advanced to be accepted by ordinary people.
He's just an ordinary student.
He is no ordinary student.
His strength is much greater than that of an ordinary man.
He's just an ordinary man.
He is above the ordinary type of student.
Movie subtitles
The projectile's gonna come through this hole, slam into this target, which is about two feet across - this is just ordinary sand - and we'll see if it survives.
The evening on which these events took place was no ordinary evening.
And it is the story also a heroine. not the brilliant, beautifully gowned. and shingled heroine of the film play-- but just and ordinary wife and mother. whose life is compassed by the four walls of her suburban home.
The war had already ended when he left the clinic and the brave men, who had liberated their homeland, - returned to their ordinary, everyday lives.
And one like that is worth three ordinary ones.
What you see here is an ordinary top hat, an original British top hat.
Most ordinary guy in the world, me.
You think you're superior, but you're quite an ordinary man. even if you did marry money. and people like me have got to slave for you. for 320 marks a month.
There are robberies every night by ordinary burglars.
Just because you're a baronet's daughter, you take liberties that an ordinary secretary wouldn't think of.
The ordinary secretary wouldn't have intelligence enough to think of it.
An attack on a girl hits us ordinary people where we live.
You see, the opera is not conducted like any ordinary business.
The gangsters are not afraid unless the ordinary people as you, me or Mr. Verloc.
It's a miracle. We're back to being ordinary humans.
This is not an ordinary war for treasure or conquest.
But in ordinary life, it does not happen.
In ordinary life, one must be content with less.
Methinks the greatest captain on the coast. has just made the greatest mistake. the most ordinary common fool could make.
An attack on a girl hits us ordinary people where we live. We're gonna see that politics don't cut any ice.
The opera is not conducted like any ordinary business.
No ordinary man has your power of observation.
Needs to be something ordinary.
My mother sent me to an ordinary school.
I will dip one in ordinary water.
This guest whom we're expecting is no ordinary person.
It's all very ordinary.
I'm not like ordinary people. I need excitement.
This is no ordinary apple. It's a magic wishing apple.
Oh, that you were a nice girl- rather ordinary-looking but efficient. like me.
You know, Tracy's no ordinary woman and you said things to her this afternoon I resented.
I'm not, you know. I'm a perfectly ordinary, harmless bloke.
And she's no ordinary girl.
This isn't just an ordinary breakdown.
News and current affairs
As you read this, perfectly ordinary people somewhere in the world are doing unspeakable things to others.
That this happens to ordinary Russians is clear; what Cherkesov revealed was that Putin's circle also confronts this situation.
Instead of feeling the pinch of wartime privations, like in any ordinary country, American consumers are binging as if it were Christmas all year round.
Physics, at least the physics we encounter as ordinary humans, is well mapped.
Countering narco-gang violence includes working with Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim to develop tools that allow ordinary citizens to report violence anonymously by text message and enable police to map the results.
A comprehensive approach must recognize the speed of internal change, especially in the minds of ordinary North Koreans.
The lives of ordinary North Koreans matter as much as the security of North Korea's neighbors.
A small amount of additional scientific expertise and lab equipment would need to be added to a public health system that serves ordinary needs.
After all, the passion that the Palestinians' plight evokes among ordinary Egyptians is a dangerous source of instability.
The protests are clearly the result of ordinary citizens becoming fed up with corruption, the lack of any semblance of rule of law, and arbitrary treatment.
Appropriate accounting, separating expenditures for recapitalizing banks from ordinary expenditures, such as those needed to run hospitals and schools, would make clear that these expenditures are not by themselves inflationary.
No ordinary psychiatrist, however, attested to Budanov's alleged insanity.
But, in the end, ordinary Germans have been proved right, and the elites have been proved wrong.
In Ukraine, ordinary citizens demonstrated the depth of their commitment to free and fair elections.
In reality, in far too many countries, ordinary citizens do not benefit from any of this money; in fact, they must bear the brunt of the environmental and social costs imposed by mining and drilling operations.
If real estate prices were to fall dramatically, a chain reaction could occur, taking down big and small investors alike, and over time causing wide suffering to ordinary Africans.
This depreciation would perhaps be justifiable had Nigeria managed to use easy money to narrow the gap between ordinary Nigerians' standard of living and that of people living in Britain.
But such low rates do not reflect ordinary market sentiment; rather, they stem from the fact that the Federal Reserve is now buying more long-term securities than the government is issuing to finance the budget deficit.
Ordinary North Koreans, too, evidently seem to view this succession differently from that of Kim Jong-il's inheritance of power from his father, Kim Il-sung.
Activists from public movements, journalists, ecologists, businessmen, and ordinary people who had suffered the tyranny and corruption of public officials began to join in.
Where Obama's strategy is weakest is in reaching ordinary people: the networked web of human relationships that transmits rage, hatred, and despair or hope, trust, and loyalty.
In Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor and tireless warrior for reforms to protect ordinary citizens from banks' abusive practices, won a seat in the Senate.