please
adverb
(used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly.
have been pleasing
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present perfect progressiveof please.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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"We get a goal back at the death and if we hadn't conceded a poor second goal we could have walked away with a point, which would have been pleasing," he said.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2013
But it's not just his goals that have been pleasing – it's the way he's played all round and the assists he's got.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2012
It would have been pleasing, Molly thought, to have them going every which way.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 20, 2010
The contour of her face must have been pleasing, since he looked at it interestedly, as if forgetting in its contemplation the words uttered; and then— "Indeed?" he said at last.
From Told In The Hills by Marah Ellis Ryan
It would have been pleasing to look upon.
From Bar-20 Days by Clarence Edward Mulford
