Infinitive complement

• make: Robert Enright CBC Winnipeg Bill Buffery's adaptation adds the sparkle that lifts this out of the ordinary to make it a memorable production.

Modifies a noun

• share: To declare a final dividend on the Ordinary shares.

• citizen: It is the same to campaign for the disarming of ordinary British citizens.

• folk: Experts and we ordinary folk must be equally vexed.

• equation: The same approach can be applied to higher order ordinary differential equations.

• mortal: This is getting too complicated for us ordinary mortals; no wonder we get confused.

• Iraqi: In this way the fate of ordinary Iraqis is linked to the interests of working-class people in Britain.

Modifying Another Word

• disturbingly: Their disturbingly ordinary if morris knew blasting away in gosh they're quite.

• seemingly: We start out with the daily lives of a few seemingly ordinary people.

• perfectly: Double deckers were not common at Victoria, particularly those that appeared to be perfectly ordinary busses, but Thames Valley were the exception.

• fairly: It looked a routine victory for Australia and a fairly ordinary match.

• rather: Their approach becomes robotic, mechanistic and at best rather ordinary.

• apparently: Behind apparently ordinary language it discovers rich mines of meaning to which the poem points.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Earlier this year I met a man in the United States who seemed very ordinary.

• look: Barnett gave natural width to the right hand side and the Reds were making a good Ipswich side look ordinary.

• become: In doing this, the support given becomes as ordinary as helping a friend.

• make: More generally, religious man needed to enter sacred time periodically because sacred time was what made ordinary, historical time possible.