Drawing on conversation analytic methods and on interactional linguistics, this study examines the role of body movements, and especially leaning, in the production of recipient intervening questions in Mandarin face-to-face conversation. Leaning visually shows the recipient's orientation to his/her question as segregate and disaligned with the speaker's continuing turn and activity under way. Holding of the lean is a disposible resource for the recipient to mobilize response to the intervening questions. This study demonstrates that leaning is apposite to the organization of the recipient intervening question–answer sequences in Mandarin conversation.