beg for
beg your pardon
go begging
beg off
beg one's pardon
the boy was screaming and begging for mercy.
derelicts begging for change;
we have to go cap in hand begging for funds.
The Depression reduced many to begging on street corners.
Her eyes are begging for an answer.
They went from house to house, begging the people for bread.
Things have come to a pretty pass when children are begging in the streets.
He had come down to begging when his father found him.
Meanwhile, Anne has been begging Muttonchops and Girlboy to help her take care of the mutant boyfriend from Hell's poultry farm.
Nothing was more calculated to annoy Halidome than to tell him he was"begging the question", for he prided himself on being strong in logic.
One day Tom was in the act of dosing the crack when his aunt's yellow cat came along, purring, eying the teaspoon avariciously, and begging for a taste.
And therefore to her parish, she was begging back her way.
Again it adds force or emphasis, but it's not begging.
And therefore to her parish, she was begging back her way.
The government had promised to stop this begging in the streets by 2015.
And the forest was weeping tears of sap begging to be saved.
Heidi couldn't even finish her second drink before she was begging me to come upstairs.
Disabled, most rely on street begging to sustain them.
I am begging you to tell them.
I don't think begging will work either.
I'm begging you to make that call!
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