Sentence examples for begged a ride from inspiring English sources

A French family of four who had been stuck on the island for a week begged a ride back to the capital, Port Vila, on an Australian military aircraft.

I begged a ride home and made plans to contact the tire dealer.

He grips Henry by the neck and begs a ride, adding, in the most menacing moment of the film, "Frankly, this needs to happen".

For Morton, visiting what remains of the places where Paul stayed is often a case of begging a ride from a local.

Overoptimistic walkers may find themselves forced to take a taxi or beg a ride, which is not in the spirit of Luxury Backpacking.

In the dream, Noah began begging for a ride as the car came to a stop.

But Mr. Whyld did not want to beg for a ride on a military helicopter, taking the space of much-needed aid.

The moping Lad takes to hiding in the car to beg for a ride, and accidentally becomes a stowaway when the Master and Mistress go to the Catskills to visit friends.

But Mr. Crelia, 27, nearly didn't make it home from the AIDS conference; without the $17 necessary to buy a bus ticket, he'd had to beg a stranger for a ride back to New York.

Indeed, woe to the adolescent who wants to walk or bike to a movie without begging Mom for a ride, says Michael Southworth, professor at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design and coauthor of "Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities". "I have a lot of students who have grown up on cul-de-sacs.

Mindy has managed to avoid Albert's jeep for several days, but he has developed a reputation for discovering the best animals, so although there's no game run today — they're relocating to the hills, where they'll spend the night in a hotel for the first time this trip — the children begged to ride with him.