Sentence examples for plea to him from inspiring English sources

"I'm just copping a plea to him, like: 'Please don't shoot me.

Their plea to him will have been "don't tie our hands too tightly," and if Khan is to work productively with them as mayor he won't want to be at war with them.

Uefa's president, Michel Platini, a one time ally of the Fifa president who declined to stand against him but made a personal plea to him to stand down before the election, said: "It was a difficult decision, a brave decision and the right decision".

In a piece for the New Yorker, Louis Menand argued that Sartre was a "womaniser" and De Beauvoir a "classic enabler", going so far as to suggest that she feigned bisexuality to please him, and that parts of The Second Sex were written as a plea to him, reducing one of the 20th century's greatest intellectual works to a marital squabble.

Peck's wife's plea to him to win the case, despite her knowledge of his love for her rival, and her protestation that "if she dies you are lost to me forever" undercuts the notional happy ending here in a film darkened even moreby Charles Laughton's scene-stealing role as the grotesque judge, Lord Horfield.

Lauretta makes a final plea to him with "O mio babbino caro" (Oh, my dear papa), and he agrees to look at the will.

My mother, who had a great sense of drama, would make pleas to him to go straight.

Sadly, Raheem didn't take too kindly to this, or, indeed, any of my other pleas to him.

The boys confront Towelie and make emotional speeches to him as a plea to help him from killing himself (except Cartman, who uses this opportunity to verbally attack Kyle and his Jewish faith on television to the tune of what appears to be several tens of thousands of pages, which the psychiatrist allows to continue in respect of the "no interruptions" rule).

So Mr Cameron sensibly devoted the last section of his speech to, in effect, a desperate plea to them to cut him a break.Surely, he implored, exceptions could be made to "meet the real concerns of a major Member State, one of the biggest net contributors to the EU budget?" And if Mr Cameron fails in his demands for EU change, what then?

In the end, his speech is a rallying cry, almost a plea to give him a chance.