had obliged
- past perfect of oblige.
Example Sentences
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The provincial government insists the blockades be lifted, he said, adding, without further details, that unidentified people had obliged Buritica shopkeepers to close their businesses.
From Reuters ● Aug. 19, 2022
“They would tell it to people they had obliged in the past,” Raigar said of the officials.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
It would have been better for Clegg and for our poor, misgoverned country if society had obliged him to find his own way in the world.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2011
Recent elections had obliged by actually being close.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper, had obliged with a sack full of his own homemade rock cakes.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
