(1) The staff of the school have been very obliging and friendly.(2) Tommie was regarded among all who knew him as a very decent and obliging man.(3) They boost their own expenses and expand their empires and then, when they discover that they cannot deliver services, they turn to the obliging taxpayer.(4) He was the salt of the earth, a man who was very obliging and very quiet.(5) A very pleasant and obliging man, he gained the popularity of everybody.(6) Of course you could borrow one from an obliging neighbour, but they are then in the same precarious position.(7) However, the pleasant and obliging staff willingly produced a jug of hot water.(8) So, an obliging booking clerk spent ages delving through timetables and suggested she go via Sheffield and Leicester, at a cost of u00a346.(9) He was not frightened to help people out and was a very obliging fellow.(10) By the age of five her mother was happy to hand over the little girl's care whenever she could to an obliging friend.(11) Some boredom existed, as in the Army during the war: and you needed luck and the obliging help of friendly men who could cover up your minor failures just as you covered up theirs.(12) And this open-handed warmth equally encompasses the friendly, obliging ship's crew.(13) The very happy and obliging young service ladies were resplendent in snappy white shorts and tops.(14) It is staffed by the most amiable and strenuously obliging bunch of cosmopolitan youngsters who appear not to have been corrupted by working in hotel chains.(15) Kevin will best be remembered as an obliging and jocular butcher who ran the family business at 82 Main Street for 65 years.(16) He took up the job as caretaker of Mount Sion Secondary School, and his obliging manner made him very popular with teachers and pupils alike.
