Sentence examples for it please you from inspiring English sources

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The story ends on a note of hard-won hope: " 'If it please you,' he said in the new prayers for all of them, the living and the dead".

Mr. Carter took a survey of around 500 individuals living within a mile of the national park, asking questions like "Does it please you just knowing that tigers exist in the nearby forests?" and "How worried are you that tigers will attack you or someone in your family?" He also asked people whether they preferred that the tiger populations increase, decline or remain the same.

In fact, I've become so desensitized that I often find my mind wandering out of the bedroom during even the raunchiest of scenes and wondering "Darling, might it please you to peruse some abject theory by Julia Kristeva or perhaps appropriate Slavoj Zizek's ontology instead?" Nicholson Baker's House of Holes was just the mental dicking my ennui needed.

"Community Center" (If It Please You) and "The Bath" (A Small Good Thing) and I'd want some more of the old couple, Anna and Henry Gates, in "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" (Beginners).

In "If It Please You," James and Edith Packer, a getting-on-in-years couple, arrive at the local bingo hall to discover their regular places have been taken by a young hippie couple.

Two of the most dismaying examples are "If It Please You" ("After the Denim" in "What We Talk About") and "A Small, Good Thing" ("The Bath" in "What We Talk About").

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Shift if it pleases you.

We're not playing it because it pleases you.

You should wear a suit if it pleases you.

Follow me on Twitter if it pleases you, and feel free to follow anyone else you find interesting.

"Lord honey hate on me if it pleases you, I paid for a flight to volunteer for literacy & didn't get what I paid for," she added.

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