Example sentences of "his attention to [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they disappeared he turned his attention to a couple of girls who were laughing and giggling as they flung an orange frisbee at each other . |
| 2 | ‘ You are not , presumably , expecting this murderer , if he exists , to turn his attention to the rest of the family . |
| 3 | Having achieved that , he has now turned his attention to the rest of us . |
| 4 | And tomorrow in the final part of State of Grace , Ronnie will be turning his attention to the battle over women priests currently dividing the Scottish Episcopal Church . |
| 5 | By this time he played little active part in the business , devoting his attention to the management of the Belfast Ropeworks , which he had helped to found in 1872–3 with W. H. Smiles , the son of Samuel Smiles [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | His attention to the style of his premiership shone through even at the age of ninety , twenty years after his departure from No. 10 , in a television interview with Ludovic Kennedy : |
| 7 | Murad 's successor , Bayezid I , was forced to turn his attention to the threat to his base in Asia Minor posed by the advance of the Mongol hordes of Timur the Lame ( Tamerlane ) . |
| 8 | DeVore turned briefly to smile at Berdichev before returning his attention to the scene on the other side of the one-way mirror that took up the whole of one wall of the study . |
| 9 | Not content with this triumph , Joseph Thomas turned his attention to the groyne at the mouth of the harbour which attempted , not very successfully , to prevent sand from the beach silting up the harbour mouth . |
| 10 | He then turned his attention to the problem of the noisy cistern . |
| 11 | His scenes are never static but animated by his fast-moving line and by his attention to the life of the place , to the boats , barrels , nets and figures at work . |
| 12 | He straightened away from her and turned his attention to the man on the floor . |
| 13 | That task completed , he returned his attention to the work in front of him . |
| 14 | In other words , he need n't have told Pooh that there was honey , he could have shown him that there was — for example , by drawing his attention to the pot of honey on the sideboard . |
| 15 | In the Grammar Laski , before turning his attention to the issue of sovereignty , commenced his analysis , significantly , with an examination of the purpose of social organization and suggested that , when viewed purposively , the State ‘ becomes an organisation for enabling the mass of men to realise social good on the largest possible scale ’ . |
| 16 | At the Day School , he turned his attention to the physics of baking , boiling , mashing , sautéing and roasting potatoes — with examples to taste . |
| 17 | In the final essay in On Human Conduct , however , he turns his attention to the question of the place which this ideal character occupies as a practical engagement in history . |
| 18 | A society of extreme altruists , each devoting most of his attention to the welfare of others , would not be the ideal community it might seem ; since each would be poor in self-awareness , he would be still less aware of the actual needs of those he was trying to benefit . |
| 19 | Upon the use of ‘ Esq ’ or ‘ Mr ’ in addressing communications — a choice which Mr McBain is content to leave to instinct — perhaps one might direct his attention to the response of an old Ayrshire lady who received the suggestion that she should address a local worthy as ‘ Esq ’ with some bewilderment . |
| 20 | He rose from the table forlornly , addressing his attention to the crease on his trouser leg . |