have been pleasing
- present perfect progressive of please.
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
But for a sinister cast in his eyes, not always observable, his countenance would have been pleasing enough.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne
I dare say there are many people who would have been pleasing and natural in their manners had not their parents and teachers interfered.
From Marriage by Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone
