Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] attention [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thank my hon. Friend for drawing my attention to the representations that he has made . |
| 2 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Newham , North-West ( Mr. Banks ) for drawing my attention to the article in the Evening Standard . |
| 3 | But all this depends on the time you have left after giving your attention to the centre of the question . |
| 4 | The next day , US State Department representative Margaret Tutwiler hinted to reporters that Baker was considering transferring his attention from the Middle East to areas of the world " where the circumstances are producing change " , although he continued to hold meetings on the Middle East during January . |
| 5 | Hand signals can be developed to a greater extent to train a dog which is deaf , although there is always the problem of attracting its attention in the first instance , particularly if it runs off . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | as if aware of her dilemma , Rune glanced briefly at her before returning his attention to the road ahead . |
| 8 | He was dead , and she drew the sheet over his face before turning her attention to the next . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Huy wondered whether that eldest daughter , who worked as Reni 's secretary , had helped him destroy the documents he drew up during Akhenaten 's reign , which would have given such priceless ammunition to his enemies , before turning his attention to the newcomers . |
| 11 | The imagination must be fed ; we should not expect children to go on drawing from imagination or memory without directing his attention to the things he does and sees , and tries to imagine . |
| 12 | He should begin by drawing her attention to the dividend yield of Barclays Bank . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Nisbet ( 1978 ) and Kogan ( 1978 ) responded to the problem by turning their attention to the procedures which might be employed to meet accountability demands . |
| 15 | WE encounter a difficulty at the beginning of this part of the book by directing our attention to the solution of ‘ legal ’ problems . |
| 16 | While organization theorists have provided a considerable service by focusing our attention upon the notions of ideologies and schemas , once this has been done it is relatively easy to identify what the schemas are . |
| 17 | Counsel for the prosecution invited the jury to decide between the suggestion that the officer had ‘ gone to the very depth of deceit ’ by imposing his attention on the woman or whether she had made ‘ a wicked and false allegation ’ . |