Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [det] attention " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concentrating on his first reason , Sophie did not give much attention to his last remark . |
| 2 | Tape recorders , on the other hand , are relatively small and can therefore be placed in position where they will not attract much attention . |
| 3 | On the one hand the effect of human activity upon earth environment has been very apparent and increasing , and yet on the other hand until the 1950s or 1960s the significance of human activity did not attract much attention by physical geographers , who instead often chose to study environmental change before man , to seek processes largely unmodified by man , or at best to include man as an afterthought or an appendage . |
| 4 | I did not pay much attention to it as the time , because we had n't decided which peak we were going to attempt . |
| 5 | The quotations that follow are both from personal letters to the present writers , commenting on a published suggestion that those who give advice to parents often do not pay enough attention to the parents ' own views . |
| 6 | They do not pay enough attention to the development of the company . |
| 7 | Driving on German motorways can require strong nerves and does not leave much attention for observing the countryside . |
| 8 | Historical background is only compressed in a monograph ; biographical material may be more extensive in other sources ; the painter 's contemporaries will not receive much attention , and may be slighted . |
| 9 | Their work did not receive much attention , however , because at just about that time most people abandoned the original string theory of the strong force in favor of the theory based on quarks and gluons , which seemed to fit much better with observations . |
| 10 | It does n't need any attention . " |
| 11 | He has been known to refuse autographs by pleading that he 's nothing special and really does n't warrant such attention . |
| 12 | They wo n't attract much attention individually . |
| 13 | ‘ I must say I did n't pay much attention to that , ’ Maggie confessed . |
| 14 | On the tape , Beatrix says something I did n't pay much attention to when I first heard it . |
| 15 | ‘ You do n't pay much attention to your staff , do you ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I-I- do n't pay much attention to politics , I 'm afraid , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Mrs Baxter says she was so busy with the cleaning-up after the party that she did n't pay much attention , thought everything would progress naturally . |
| 18 | I , I get the feeling that because they do n't really know especially if you 're caught pissing around in quad , yeah , and er it 's by a teacher that you do n't know , a ma or a master or something they do n't pay much attention to it because you 're a girl and they do n't know you and I get that feeling anyway , I feel slightly like we c could actually get away with more . |
| 19 | no and they did n't pay much attention , they always seem intimidated of us |
| 20 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 21 | Oscar did n't pay any attention to her . |
| 22 | He refused birds the permission to fly or the winds to blow , and became annoyed when they did n't pay any attention to him . |
| 23 | [ They ] Do n't pay any attention , just do what you got to do and get out as quick as you can . ’ |
| 24 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 25 | And in the circumstances , he did n't pay any attention to the print on the er H R T er one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 26 | We did n't pay any attention , but a minute later one of the waiters came up to the table in a hurry . |
| 27 | I first saw him when you were sitting out on the veranda ; but I did n't pay any attention to him . |
| 28 | I touched his arm , but apart from deepening his frown for a second he did n't pay any attention . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't pay any attention to Aubrey , ’ she muttered in a voice still audible to her brother . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , I do n't pay any attention to what they think is best for me . |