Sentence examples for doing the ordinary thing from inspiring English sources

If, after a year or two, the book seems to be doing the ordinary thing, like being bought occasionally, go back and write again.

Instead, she'd been busy doing the ordinary things: cooking chicken and doing the school run.

I think there are other people who are out in the community who are a billion times braver than I am, and they are the monks and the people who are doing the ordinary things.

She does the ordinary things which we see done from day to day, does them simply and naturally, yet rivets attention on herself.

He tries nothing fancy, plays no special shots, but the manner in which he does the ordinary things, the purposeful nature that underpins every stroke he plays make comparisons with Dravid inevitable.

And when you reach that upper echelon of fame – when you're in one of the world's very biggest bands, such as One Direction or Iron Maiden or the Who – it becomes all but impossible to do the ordinary things that most people take for granted.

"The purpose of terrorism is to make ordinary people afraid to do the ordinary things that make up their lives," Supervisor Janice Rutherford said.

"We know Desmond is not an ordinary returner, but we're just going to do the ordinary things". Uh-oh, there goes the Super Bowl.

"Champions are champions," he said, "not because they do extraordinary things but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else".

"The purpose of terrorism is to make ordinary people afraid to do the ordinary things that make up their lives," county Supervisor Janice Rutherford said Monday, five days after the massacre.

I try to ignore the longing, but sometimes it sneaks up when I'm doing the most ordinary thing like folding laundry.