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
To some his manner might have been pleasing, but to one with any degree of penetration, the crafty, scheming nature under the thin veneer was very apparent.
From The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West by A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour
A meeting of this kind would have been pleasing in the highest degree, for it added great strength to the party; but a misgiving came to the lad when he recognized Zitner.
From The Daughter of the Chieftain : the Story of an Indian Girl by Edward Sylvester Ellis
