beseech
verb (used with object)
to implore urgently.
had besought
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past perfectof beseech.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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For years, Belgians had besought their remote, unhappy King Baudouin to take a wife.
From Time Magazine Archive
As if I had besought them as a favour to bother my life out.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
I put some questions to some of the women, from which it appeared that although they had besought the English not to burn their clothes and food, yet this had been done.
From My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War by P. Van Breda
Then her astonished relatives learned that she really had been in correspondence with Attila, and had besought him to claim her in marriage.
From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain
Restless from a strong desire to leave the country, she had besought him to act as her guide to the stone farm-house.
From Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
