Collocations for plead - verb

almost
She was almost pleading with him.

silently
successfully (esp. BrE)
She successfully pleaded their cause with the mayor.

desperately
The teacher was today desperately pleading for news of her son who has disappeared.

for
They pleaded for mercy.

with
His eyes silently pleaded with her.

plead guilty, plead not guilty
He pleaded not guilty to the murder.

Plead is used with these nouns as the subject:
eye

Plead is used with these nouns as the object:
case, cause, headache, ignorance, innocence, insanity, self-defence