Sentence examples for ordinary chap from inspiring English sources
I'm just an ordinary chap.
In every way except his mastery of the bat he seems to have been a fairly ordinary chap.
More often, though, he represented men at arms as being thoroughly integrated and at ease with their civilian counterparts, as decent, ordinary chaps who just happen to have taken the king's shilling.
The 19th-century editors soon realised that was too grand an aim: there was far too much esoteric scientific vocabulary, for example, that the ordinary, educated chap just didn't need to know.
Alas, the secret saviour, Henry Coombe-turnedt, turned out to be an ordinary sort of chap, though he did have an interesting life – Eton, Cambridge, Welsh Guards, MI6 and work for Kim Philby – and in the end fulfilled some small part of his spiritual role by converting to Catholicism and becoming a monk.
The notion of a "logical construction" was also important for how such thinkers conceived of the nature of ordinary objects (see, e.g., Ayer 1952, chap. 3).
Led by single-minded Scotsman John Grierson, the disparate group of socially engaged chaps made hundreds of films lionising the work of ordinary people on which Britain depended.
