Sentence examples for when asked to stand from inspiring English sources

When asked to stand up, he tried but immediately collapsed.

"I felt like a criminal," Liz Caton said, "when asked to stand with hands overhead".

When asked to stand up the claims, Fox News pointed to the BBC's recent appointment of an independent scrutineer of its Middle East coverage (which, Fox said, has a pro-Arab bias).

In comes a fast-talking, lank-haired celebrity who has a ready answer when he's asked why he wants to go into politics: "When I was asked to stand for Parliament, I said yes because it was a beautiful woman asking me," he smirks.

There is further ribbing when Turner is asked to stand on a block to even out the height differences between them.

When he was asked to stand, he objected to references to him in the charge sheet as Asiong Salonga, a movie character he had played, and as Jose Velarde, a pseudonym he is accused of using on secret bank accounts.

Tender reunion EMI's party on a boat wasn't going swimmingly when Noel Gallagher was asked to stand in front of a hastily erected white screen to get the expected PR shots.

His big break came in 2007, when he was asked to stand in on Sara Cox's weekend show – the call came through on the night of his graduation ball – and he was offered a contract soon afterwards.

When subjects were asked to stand up and walk to the object with their eyes closed and on their real legs, those shown the long, fake legs took too few steps toward it.

When mothers were asked to stand, she noted that "Real women stood, empty shells sat".

When Jennet was asked to stand up and give evidence against her mother, Elizabeth began to scream and curse her daughter, forcing the judges to have her removed from the courtroom before the evidence could be heard.