When he went over to voice again he asked plaintively: 'What's happening?

And she plaintively asked, "But where sleep all our friends in England?

Ruth plaintively asked if they couldn't get on with the hunting since he was hungry.

Mary asks plaintively, her eyes taking on a suitably sad expression.

Then she plaintively asks if she can open the package.

I asked plaintively, not having to work to sound frightened.

The question of where to go with children is asked frequently and plaintively by parents.

Why, asked Philip plaintively, do you keep walking about?

"Why," the Mayor asked plaintively, "don't you answer the phone when the poll people call?"

Every week for more than two decades he has called her and asked plaintively: "Annie, can you forgive me?"