1.   He joined the football team to please his father.

2.   Although Mozart the child prodigy seemed only too happy to please his father, difficulties began to blossom in earnest as he reached adolescence.

3.   A smile danced across the face of Joelle, who delighted in pleasing her father.

4.   After the crash, Robin Fech believed her performance in the air would have pleased her father.

5.   But first, Looie tried to please his father.

6.   Carrie Jones dropped out of college, where she had studied nursing partly to please her father, a doctor.

7.   He ended up liking Hemingway the most, which pleased his father.

8.   His choice of career did not please his father.

9.   Michael Cooper said word of the revival had pleased his father.

10.   Neither has, as yet, found a compelling political vision, beyond furthering the interests of the party machine and pleasing their fathers.