But how quickly the commonplace things that people do become mysteries when circumstances change.

She seemed a little shy, and they found nothing but commonplace things to say to one another.

As if it were the most commonplace thing in the world.

A commonplace thing, accident or loss, it may mean nothing here and everything there.

It was a foolishly commonplace thing to say in a place like this.

But quite commonplace things would be very difficult to convey.

However, he was going to have to learn the feelings from the inside now; things commonplace to a small human child were alien to Data.

Maybe along the way he fell in love, had children, did the commonplace things that make up the whole drama of lives lived elsewhere.

Will you now fall back on so commonplace a thing as simple deceit?

That night the pretty little flat seemed a commonplace thing.