were pleasing
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past progressiveof please.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
pleaseadverb(used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly.
Example Sentences
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Both Grealish and Gordon played as if they had a point to prove - and while in the second half England played within themselves, they were pleasing on the eye in the first half.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024
Pasadena’s Bowen Court, completed in 1911, and Santa Monica’s gracious Horatio West Court, designed by Modernist Irving Gill and completed in 1919, offered models of density that were pleasing, practical and inexpensive to build.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
Hakimi’s goals were pleasing on the eye in the way they allied great technique with excellent composure.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
William used his populism to suggest that any religious experience” was true if the consequences of holding it were pleasing to the individual concerned.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2017
I could not think of remaining here unless the thought of it were pleasing to you.
From The Man Who Rose Again by Joseph Hocking