Sentence examples for greatly obliged from inspiring English sources
I SHOULD be greatly obliged if you could find space in your columns for the following extracts from a letter which I have received from my friend Dr. A. G. Bagshawe announcing the discovery, I believe for the first time, of the pupæ of the tsetse-fly (Glossina palpalis) in nature.
I don't disagree with them, though I did find the reading experience uncomfortable, especially when I bumped up against one of Cather's frequent declarations that she considers her letters "entirely personal and confidential," or her request that a correspondent "just put them in the furnace, I shall be greatly obliged to you".
On 28 July 1800, at the suggestion of Coleridge, he wrote to the chemist Humphry Davy: You would greatly oblige me by looking over the enclosed poems, and correcting anything you find amiss in the punctuation, a business at which I am ashamed to say I am no adept.
There is one person, often greatly his superior in understanding, who is obliged to consult him, and whom he is not obliged to consult.
The editors of the OED had to give up, because, they said, "men's notions of the shape and position of the earth have so greatly changed since Old Teutonic times"; they were obliged to compromise with a logical order.
In addition to saddling Greece with an unsustainable debt burden, the troika obliged the government in Athens to slash spending and greatly reduce its ballooning budget deficit.
