Many good container plants – fuchsia, diascia, helichrysum, ivy-leaved geraniums, nemesia, variegated plectranthus, verbena, bacopa – are obliging enough to thrive in sun or half-shade.
On submission he was obliging enough, after borrowing a cigarette, to conduct me to the back door of the Gresham Hotel, where after a long parley behind barricaded doors they gave me shelter.
By the time they hosted Lyon – who needed to win, hope Ajax lost to Real and that a seven-goal turnaround manifested itself in the meantime – their race was long since run and they were obliging enough in helping the French side win theirs.
The fast-food chain is obliging.
Business group London First, also under fire for not cheering loudly enough, is obliged to reflect different shades of opinion among its members.
At a time when even the important acts of daily life are largely matters of convenience, chance remains at hunting's core: present in how scent lies on the ground, in which way the wind blows, in how animals detect a hunter's footfall, and, increasingly, in whether those same animals are then obliging enough to stay off private land.
But even he is obliged to stop dervishing for long enough to ponder the big questions, including what went wrong in his friendship with Nimoy.
Scotland are obliging this year.
The Americans have been obliging.
The government has been obliging.
Luckily they are obliging.
