The workers started pleading for reinforcements in 1996, the records show.

I catch hints of a religious yearning when people start pleading for copies of the 'Mrin'.

No sooner had we unloaded our thermos of burgers than all of us children started pleading to go home.

Kitty started pleading still more with her mother to allow her to make Varenka's acquaintance.

One day last year a friend of mine started pleading with people that we needed $400 more to do something.

I just said that to make you so afraid you'd start begging and pleading.

The trial started on September 14 with each of the 50 men pleading "not guilty".

"If she was nice about it, didn't start pleading and carrying on."

Finally, in agony, after I've taken the coat off her face, she starts pleading, or at least tries to, the adrenaline momentarily overpowering the pain.

Saban's persuasiveness had a huge impact on the program even before he started pleading with his team to look at one game at a time.