Sentence examples for only when asked to from inspiring English sources

She said she thought about Mr. McVeigh only when asked to.

Aid agencies operate under strict remits and often only when asked to do so by a country's government.

Restaurants should serve water only when asked to do so; car washes are asked to use recycled water.

It was only when asked to play in an exhibition in the spring to inaugurate the new Centre Court roof at Wimbledon that she realized she was ready to resume her career.

In Asian contexts, teachers are supposedly models of correct behaviour and students are allowed to speak only when asked to do so (Scollon and Scollon, 1995), or are discouraged to question either their teachers or other classmates who might be older, or of a different gender (Kennedy, 2002).

Over a third of GPs in our study either did not weigh at all or weighed only when asked to by the patient.

Knausgaard is experiencing the kind of success that most authors only dream of, but when asked to reflect on his impact he says, "It fills me with sadness every time I talk about it".

The group "hesitated only slightly" when asked to donate the customary week's wages, a large sum for a Beatle, to learn.

Mr. Romney discusses his wife's condition when talking to voters, but typically only when asked, according to his campaign staff.

Mr Aitken spoke only once, replying when asked to confirm that his name was Jonathan William Patrick Aitken: "It is".

Like the check-in clerk and the immigration official at Beijing's airport, the flight's co-pilot can only giggle uncomfortably when asked to explain the contradictions.