They had their morning coffee 'in the ordinary way', reading the paper and not speaking until they were finished.
My wife thought our guide was strange, but he seemed perfectly 'ordinary' to me.
They've had the 'ordinary' problems associated with starting a new business.
(..) It was... ...it was the look on their faces. Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The magician shows you something ordinary. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, (..)2006 The Prestige
(..) of three parts, or acts. The magician shows you something ordinary. Where do you think you're going? I'm part of the bloody act, you fool. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do (..)2006 The Prestige