verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ask/beg/pray etc for (sb’s) forgiveness
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He never admitted his guilt or asked for forgiveness.
begging bowl
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Arts and theatre groups are constantly thrusting the begging bowl at the government.
beg/plead for mercy (= ask in a desperate way for someone's mercy )
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She continued the punishment, although they begged for mercy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
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One of the last nights, Amelia begged off going to a party and stayed home, so Toot stayed home too.
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He begs off from a movie on Saturday.
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Could he back out, beg off ?
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Binyomin asked me to go with him to the soup kitchen, but I begged off even though I was hungry.
■ NOUN
door
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Mad faces pushed against the grilles in the doors , tortured ones begging for mercy.
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Later, during a frightful storm, a princess knocked at the castle door , begging for shelter.
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The angel, disguised as an old man, went from door to door begging for food and drink.
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Corrigan remembered the people coming up to the stable door and begging food or work.
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I carried on knocking on the door and begging to be let in.
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He rowed him back however and the convict went to the door to beg for money.
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Sometimes a tramp would knock on the back door , begging for food or offering to do a job for a few coppers.
food
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By now I was extremely hungry, so I used sign language to beg the official for food .
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The man is oblivious to his living conditions and the fact his 9-year-old son begs food from the neighborhood grocer.
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Gerd suddenly says he is hungry, and begs some food from one or more of the adventurers.
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In a village she asks for work without success and then begs for food .
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Having given away all her money in Rome, she begged her food , or existed on charitable donations.
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Presumably it knew such begging meant food is being served nearby.
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When he was released he begged for food at markets by dragging himself along on his knees.
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I never begged anyone for food .
forgiveness
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I was too proud to follow him and beg forgiveness .
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C., to beg forgiveness for the way black men had mistreated their women and neglected their families.
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Confess your unworthy behaviour and beg his honour's forgiveness for all your faults.
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Then he humbly begged her forgiveness .
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Could Woodhead admit the affair, beg forgiveness and keep his job?
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At the end of the play, Derikson receives a letter from Frederica, whom he had thought dead, begging forgiveness .
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She fought back the sudden urge to run to him, to fling herself into his arms and beg his forgiveness .
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If the evil characters are not punished per se they admit their guilt and often beg forgiveness .
hand
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He might as well have gotten down on his hands and knees and begged for it.
help
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And anyway I don't want to beg for Edgar's help , or make trouble for him.
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Cupid had told him the whole Story and had begged for his help .
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I suppose I should have just gone and begged for help but Shallot has his pride.
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Rescued by human teens and taken to the vet, Keelk recovers and begs for help to rescue her family.
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I hate the sound of people crying in pain, begging for help .
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Like his people, the Somalian President can only beg for help .
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SHe'd never begged help off anyone before - hadn't needed to.
knee
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The men and women were on their knees , begging the agents and constables not to persist with the evictions.
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She has to be careful not to trip over these little kids who press forward at her knees , begging for autographs.
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He was on his knees , begging to stay.
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She fell on her knees before them and begged them to take her with them.
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I actually went on my knees and begged , but he laughed and there me out.
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He might as well have gotten down on his hands and knees and begged for it.
letter
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He had another go at persuasion and wrote Adam long letters to his college begging for compromises.
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The directive to write a farewell letter of sorts begged several other questions, too.
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These letter flattered Brutus and begged him to do something about Rome.
mercy
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I wanted to cry, weep and beg the Almighty for mercy .
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Leonor has begged mercy for Manrique but the Count refuses.
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Mad faces pushed against the grilles in the doors, tortured ones begging for mercy .
money
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You feel you're begging for money ... Probably it's money that's coming to me because I have paid insurance.
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Just a few years ago, Tanya was homeless and begging for money in front of a supermarket in New York City.
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At times he was reduced to publishing acrostics in newspapers begging money for his wife and children.
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I was homeless and had to beg for money .
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Every year people are asked to write in and beg for money .
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The number was so huge, books were begging for San Diego money .
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At no time has the hospital begged for money for baby heaters.
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My fatherless children are alone up in Orkney while I beg for money .
pardon
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King: I beg thy pardon , Wapping.
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I beg your pardon , Professors.
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I am ashamed of it myself, and for this reason I stoop to beg your pardon .
question
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The question begs: is there, after all these centuries, an absolute best exercise for general fitness?
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The question begs other questions and is potentially leading and confusing.
street
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Never since the first world war have we had homeless teenage children begging in the streets .
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I had to beg in the street or go to the neighbors for help.
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I have never seen so many unemployed and homeless people begging on the streets of London.
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You ought to beg in the streets , not live here in comfort with a gentleman's family.
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They are the people begging in our streets .
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I hope that gradually we will stop seeing them begging on the streets without any prospects for their future.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I beg to differ
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Selling some of course. I beg to differ .
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Well having discussed this matter with many typical users of word processors, I beg to differ .
ask/beg sb's pardon (for sth)
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I am ashamed of it myself, and for this reason I stoop to beg your pardon .
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I ask you to pardon me.
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In 1182, he asked formally for pardon , prostrating himself before Barbarossa.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All right, all right, I'll come! Just stop begging.
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Benji, stop begging.
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Chad was begging and pleading.
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Children were begging in the streets.
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He said he wouldn't give me the money unless I got down on my knees and begged him.
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It's the same old story - one night he beats her up, and the next day he begs her for forgiveness.
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Just a few years ago, Tanya was homeless and begging for money in front of the supermarket.
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Sad looking men of all ages beg from tourists at the corner of the square.
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The plan begs the question of whether the development is actually needed.
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The prisoner was in so much pain all he could do was scream and beg for mercy.
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Things got so bad that at one point she thought she'd have to go out and beg .
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We all begged him not to drive in the storm, but he wouldn't listen to us.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beppe overhears her plans and when he confronts her, she begs him not to tell Roy.
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He begged for a letter by return.
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He begged his parents for lessons and began piano studies at age five.
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He might as well have gotten down on his hands and knees and begged for it.
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He says that the police were right behind them - he begged his brother to stop.
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Such measures, of course, beg the question in many ways.