Sentence examples for were obliging enough from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

Scotland are obliging this year.

The Americans have been obliging.

The government has been obliging.

Luckily they are obliging.

Some consumers are obliging.

The fast-food chain is obliging.

I do not have room to quote them in full, alas, but I am obliged to quote enough to do justice to Hunziker's sense of trespass and outrage.