"please" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I asked with mock innocence, secretly pleased by her reaction.
- But according to a friend, she was secretly pleased by one newspaper cartoon last month.
- Later in the series, it is implied that Lucas is secretly pleased by his daughter's courage and skill, even though he prefers to present the image of a strict but caring disciplinarian.
- "Yeah, right," Kathy muttered, secretly pleased by his praise.
- As they retraced their steps to the rotunda, Adrienne unconsciously held her head a little higher, secretly pleased by how womanly she felt.
- The Shadow had a feeling that the suave, young cancer specialist was secretly pleased by Bartley's failure to block the payment of the money.
- Later, after regaining my composure - and my pulse rate - I couldn't help feeling secretly pleased by this encounter.
- Miles fell in beside him, secretly pleased by Bonn's implicit judgment that he might in fact be useful.
- He shrugged in self-deprecation, secretly pleased by the unexpected compliment.
- Nadia, disbelieving completely his disclaimer but secretly pleased by his attitude, replied: "You would say something like that, of course . . . where do we go from here?"
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