Drawing a deep breath, she asked carefully, "What year is it?"

The right questions, carefully asked, should find him what he was looking for.

He asked carefully, "Could a person tell when he's going to die?"

Elizabeth asked carefully, unsure of the direction things were taking.

So a seller needs to ask carefully in advance and also shop around.

"Can you show us," he asked carefully, "the past we have in common?"

He asked carefully, "Do you think it's a matter of great urgency?"

He hesitated, then asked carefully, "There couldn't have been anyone else?"

"In that case," he asked carefully, "why haven't you done something about it?"

But he said the new report raised issues "serious enough to ask carefully whether there was misconduct here."