Example sentences of "[vb past] so [adj] attention " in BNC.

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1 It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out .
2 Apart form some early experiments , which can be extremely sparse , his compositions largely avoid the reductionism fundamental to the serialists who attracted so much attention in the Sixties .
3 So persistent was the language that it had become no more remarkable than just another wayward manner of speaking and their sons paid so little attention to it that it might well have been one of the many private languages of love .
4 Curious about everything ; about the men who paid so little attention to her , wondering where they were taking her ; about Allen , wondering what he was doing ; about the Friar and what he would think when he found them gone ; about herself that she should be so indifferent to her circumstances and so little fearful ; and a little curious , but least curious of all , about the Friar 's sack , curious as to why if it contained only the remnants of a meal he had been so concerned to hide it and so uneasy at leaving it in their care .
5 It is only through the most tinted of retrospective spectacles that the 1960s can appear as a golden age , and least of all in the deprived areas to which the Report correctly gave so much attention :
6 But nobody else , to the best of our knowledge , gave so much attention and so much space to Rome as Timaeus ; and nobody else was so influential .
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