After a few minutes, Mike asked me an unexpected question.

"I don't understand," he said, surprised at the unexpected question.

He nearly choked on a laugh at such an unexpected question.

Then he would ask some unexpected question, which showed how far his mind had roamed.

"In course He did," said her companion, rather startled by this unexpected question.

And in March 2002, that court raised an unexpected question: was this tax break constitutional?

The other dwarf swallowed hard at the unexpected and direct question.

Then she suddenly created an awkward moment by asking an unexpected question.

An unexpected question, perhaps, but not, in this case, an inexplicable one.

Sean nodded, his attention caught by such an unexpected question.