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In pre-pandemic times, they have been obliging in use of their bathrooms — unlike the time, with no Dunkin’ near, I was forced to ask to use the restroom in a bank.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2021

These men have been obliging enough to drop their cards as well as their bombs on several occasions.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various

To attempts to render him particular consideration he opposed a barren inertia; one could as easily have been obliging to a lamp-post.

From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Gibbon, Perceval

If I had, I’m afraid the Army wouldn’t have been obliging enough to have filled my order.”

From Voice from the Cave by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)