ask pointedly

Tom asked pointedly, with a glance at his wrist watch.

He asked pointedly if I was carrying anything resembling a weapon.

He bent down again and asked pointedly, "Is this tunnel of yours big enough for me?"

"And what did he do," Mason asked pointedly, "to protect his daughter from you?"

Asked pointedly, he said, "It was illegal, if you wish."

Max asked pointedly as he looked at his nephew.

For one thing, his passenger might ask pointedly why Rod was at the rear of the caravan.

It also put him under a spotlight, with critics asking pointedly if he could do it again.

In response to another reporter, who asked pointedly, "Are you ripping off the spectators?

Nixon asked pointedly, "Are you running for something?"

Or did it amount, one Congressional inquisitor asked pointedly, to a "shredding order"?

Perry is asked pointedly about his climate change scepticism.

Jack was about to ask pointedly, "With what?

"Were you proud of selling the picture," Ms. Myers asked pointedly.

A certain cold logic advised me that it wouldn't be too long before I'd be asked pointedly to leave.

Dax asked pointedly, noticing that it wasn't in the bay.

His remarks seemed to be so prudent that one of the interviewers even asked pointedly whether France condemned the coup.

I asked pointedly, "And for that reason, wouldn't you agree that twenty-five thousand dollars was above market price?"

Grave Digger asked pointedly, reminding him that the numbers for the most part were a daytime racket.

'You think it has something to do with his murder?' he asked pointedly, narrowing his eyes.

'Got anything there to fit me?' he asked pointedly, and a young constable reluctantly transferred his attention.

If a girl asks pointedly: "What's my favourite flower", always reply "self raising."

Damia asked pointedly when Afra joined her in the kitchen.

The president was asked pointedly by a British reporter if there was a tie between Saddam and the 9/11 hijackers.

He asks pointedly at one point, after reflecting on the tensions between religious teaching and family imperatives, "How should one put the balance right?"