Sentence examples for ordinary patrons from inspiring English sources

The promise to ordinary patrons is that they will receive celebrity treatment in a setting that will also attract real celebrities.

Still, many members of the Athenaeum -- people who pay $30 to $180 a year in exchange for borrowing privileges -- as well as ordinary patrons were furious that the leadership was willing to jettison an important part of the library's history with little input from them.

"It is extremely doubtful if this complete departure from the ordinary rut can make the grade with the average patron... Orson Welles may have the satisfaction of stirring up the critics, but the ordinary man-in-the-street has not been included in his calculations".

But Valerie Solanas — a feminist loner mainly remembered for shooting Andy Warhol — was not an ordinary library patron.

Patrons and ordinary punters alike understood the deal and didn't mind: what mattered was the feeling of buying into a prestige brand.

The motto came to Patron immediately: "Ordinary Men.

Her concept of a friendly, affordable restaurant was spot on because she realized that the people who dropped in to Jehangir were not necessarily the moneyed art patrons, but more ordinary people who dropped in on their way to work or college and would look forward to sitting down for a cup of chai and some substantial sustenance which was easy on the pocket yet filled the stomach.

Harry drops into a diner for a cup of coffee and discovers that there's a robbery in progress: four black men, pretending to be ordinary customers, pull guns on the patrons and demand their valuables.

A statistician said that people had proved basically fair, and that only forty-four ofthefirst firsthousandnd patrons ordered more than an ordinary regular meal.

Planned as an integral part of the Seagram's magnificence by the project's master planners, Phyllis Lambert, daughter of Seagram's director, and the architect and art patron Philip Johnson, the Four Seasons is restrained yet palatial - it has pools, foliage, rich stone and metal fittings, and a fabulous art collection to assure patrons that this is no ordinary restaurant.

And you'd cultivate the misleading expectation in those patrons that they must slip you some cash to receive the ordinary library services to which they are entitled.