Sentence examples for beg a bit from inspiring English sources

He had to beg a bit to persuade the Seattle fire department to let him keep a tank of a compressed gas that has the potential for use as a biochemical weapon.

It's an importunate performance, begging a bit too much for the audience's sympathy, with an assist from a musical score that overdoes the desolate, plinking piano.

She cried of hunger's gnaw To a neighbor ant she saw, And begged a bit of grain To ease her hunger pain Till spring had come instead.

Either it's always existed and I just haven't been paying attention, or there is something amuck in urban America that begs a bit of low brow noodling.

I am certainly no dictator but, at my humble level, I do what I can: it was whilst walking up Rue de Montorgueil in Paris, carrying the CD of Arnold Schönberg's Gurrelieder (1900-11) in Simon Rattle's interpretation, that I curtly sent packing the homeless person who was begging a bit too insistently for my taste.

Nestling crows don't beg all that much, but once they come out of the nest (around 5 weeks old) they beg quite a bit.

"On my birthday, I beg for a bit of wall," he said recently.

The man does sound different, until he finally begs a spare bit or two to help him through a very short rough period, he says.

"Diego was one of the biggest talents in the Championship last season and we are begging a little bit that he will re-sign.

It's just begging for a bit of greenery.

After all, it is not as though profitable opportunities are going begging for a bit of western cash.