Sentence examples for plead to be from inspiring English sources

Catalonia is a little like the big American banks, which need government help yet plead to be left alone.

It does not stop when people graduate, either; hundreds of alumni plead to be able to go back on the dance floor.

They plead to be inscribed in the book of life, as the gates of heaven close.Britain is living through a sort of Yom Kippur moment.

Few of the best stories that plead to be revisited stem from the past 10 years, though that may change if distance lends enchantment.

One of the next times I got a 7 p.m. table, but when I showed up, the restaurant had no record of the reservation, and I had to plead to be let in.

Late at night, Ken would stand in my kitchen and talk tirelessly, with a vast sense of wonder, of the ridiculousness of the ordinary and the commonness of the bizarre until I had to plead to be allowed to go to bed.

Wazir pleaded to be dismissed.

He then pleaded to be put on a different strategy.

Her own husband then stepped forward, pleading to be allowed to execute her.

"As Kristy's injuries became ever more severe, he even pleaded to be allowed to die.

We pleaded to be given a house on the Lansbury Estate but were refused.