Sentence examples for from very ordinary backgrounds from inspiring English sources
"There are lots of people from very ordinary backgrounds whose families just go the extra mile for them," Field says.
A couple of the older writers who were there when I started had been journalists, but they'd certainly come from very ordinary backgrounds".
Sailing, he argues, has long been misrepresented as a "posh" sport when most of its competitors come, like himself, from very ordinary backgrounds.
There were, and are, many students from very ordinary backgrounds at Oxbridge, and the efforts they make to gain admission, and their experiences while there, are what will make a difference to their lives, not some sort of old-school-tie association.
Many people from my very ordinary background didn't pass any important exams.
Lucy Porter is another Fringe favourite, and Northern Soul (The Stand until 25 August ****) is about how geography defines us, and trying to find an interesting identity when you come from a very ordinary background.
We are from a very ordinary background, husband is a builder, I'm a civil servant but then I found out that more than 80% of the other children had tutors.
I mean, here she was from a very ordinary Jewish background, born in Harlem when Harlem was still Jews, and there were gay guys in my life, and black people and dope addicts, and she would say, 'Oh, isn't he nice... he's nice... Tennessee Williams is nice.' "She was slightly mad".
One of my school friends from a very ordinary working-class background who rose through a brilliant career to a professorship had to spend a large part of the first year of degree courses in electronics teaching his students the mathematics they needed to be able to cope with the course, because the comprehensive education system failed to build on the aptitude of today's youngsters.
I am from Vicksburg, Mississippi, from a very ordinary although solid suburban upbringing.
All of them came from middle-class backgrounds, very ordinary backgrounds they are very self-made people.
