Sentence examples for beg scrape from inspiring English sources

Beg, scrape, it's hard.

Earlier this year she admitted to the Observer: "I'd beg, borrow and scrape together $5m and give it to her in cash if she would come back.

It's like when somebody breaks up with you and says: 'We're done.'" Or, she helpfully points out: "As Taylor Swift would say: 'We are never ever getting back together ever!' That's what Chris was saying… But I'd beg, borrow and scrape together $5m and give it to her in cash if she would come back.

It helps artistic and philanthropic ventures raise money from the public, without having to go begging and scraping to rich, powerful funders.

We begged and scraped together the cash and became proud owners of a third of an acre of bare, flinty subsoil that had been degraded by intensive farming and regular exposure to the elements.

In fact, apologizing has become such a standard operating practice among Silicon Valley's chief executives that public relations gurus have developed some "best practices" for all that begging and scraping.

"You have to scrape and beg to try to scrabble together a few hundred thousand dollars, and here we were handed the real thing".

While the top MotoGP stars can be paid in six figures, most riders in the 125cc and Moto2 classes must beg, borrow and steal to scrape together the hundreds of thousands of pounds needed for a year-long ride.

So, taking advice, we begged, borrowed and scraped together all the cash we could.

Some of Sound Portraits' annual budget of $250,000 is raised through contributions; the rest is begged, borrowed and scraped together through a patchwork quilt of public and private grants.

We beg.