please
adverb
(used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly.
had been pleasing
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past perfect progressiveof please.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Executive chairman Peter Cowgill said Christmas trading had been "pleasing", praising staff who "ensured that we were largely unaffected over the full five week period by the difficult weather conditions experienced in December".
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2011
Although Anna Maria was news to most Americans, her singing had been pleasing listeners in Italy and elsewhere on the Continent for a good while.
From Time Magazine Archive
They got their idea from Benjamin Day's New York Sun, which had been pleasing Manhattan's masses and enriching its proprietor at a penny a copy since 1833.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mary had been pleasing herself with the prospect of seeing her at this time; and with all their company, the house feels at times a frightful solitude.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
His progress to this point had been pleasing him.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster
