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  • If you keep at it any longer I'll feel obligated to help.†  (source)
  • Obviously don't feel obligated to be there, but ...do be there.†  (source)
  • There's something I feel obligated to tell you.†  (source)
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  • We weren't exactly obligated to watch, but it was unwise to miss it.†  (source)
  • had I that piece which furnished the name you use, I would obligate myself to cut the thong, and drop the gourd without breaking it!" returned Hawkeye, perfectly undisturbed by the other's manner.†  (source)
  • Conclave procedure obligates—†  (source)
  • She liked his willingness to buy her any little thing in which she appeared interested—a bag, a scarf, a purse, a pair of gloves—anything that she could reasonably ask or take without obligating herself too much.†  (source)
  • I feel obligated to communicate this to Aibileen so she doesn't end up disappointed.†  (source)
  • Coble's bill would for the first time obligate franchise chains to act in "good faith," a basic tenet of the nation's Uniform Commercial Code.†  (source)
  • And since last time I tried to keep you alive...seems like I'm obligated to save the boy this time.†  (source)
  • On the contrary, she was often troubled by a desire to like those whom she sought to use, and per contra, not to obligate herself to those whom she could not like.†  (source)
  • Under U.S. Supreme Court precedent, that Hooks had charges against him dismissed in exchange for cooperation with authorities was information that the State was obligated to reveal to the defense.†  (source)
  • He could not even guess the price of such a thing—it might cost two or three hundred, even—and he feared to obligate himself to do something which later he might not be able to do.†  (source)
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