Sentence examples for 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.

Beresford described her magic books as being about "children with very ordinary backgrounds to whom quite extraordinary things happen", and the early titles proved popular enough for her publisher to ask her to come up with a new set of characters to feature in a new series.

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 had a very ordinary background in Sheffield, I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.

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.