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Collocations for please - verb

ADVERB

enormously
The result pleased us enormously.

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VERB + please

be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to
Some children are very difficult to please.
be easy to
be eager to
He's always very eager to please.
try to
fail to
The planning policy failed to please anyone.

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PHRASES

there's no pleasing sb
There's just no pleasing some people (= some people are impossible to please).

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Please is used with these nouns as the subject:
idea

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Please is used with these nouns as the object:
fan, master, palate

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