Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] attention [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want you to attract my attention with a full introduction to tell me . |
| 2 | p.387 ) draws attention to ‘ the propensity observed in young people to restrict their attention to a small area of a picture ’ . |
| 3 | The only paper on your desk should be that on which you are currently working and material waiting to receive your attention for the first time . |
| 4 | She turned to focus her attention on the up-and-coming young band now swinging into their first number . |
| 5 | Barth and Brunner moved on from that position and came to focus their attention on the re-working and re-stating of the main classical Christian doctrines , especially of christology , in which they believed the meaning and content of the revelation was explicated . |
| 6 | Francis was trying to divide his attention between the little moving pictures and the Doctor 's argument with the dreadful Lacuna woman , but he had seen the blond girl smile in a way that made her face look almost unattractive , and he had heard her whisper savagely . |
| 7 | This is intended to draw your attention to an important piece of nutrition information about the product . |
| 8 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I was asked to draw your attention to the following footpath items : |
| 9 | Following the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I have been asked to draw your attention to the following : |
| 10 | I have been asked to draw your attention to the following street lights in Nether Wyresdale Parish which are permanently obscured by the foliage of overhanging trees : i ) A light on the north side of Station Lane Scorton outside Abbots House ii ) a light under the archway leading to Scorton Hall Park opposite The Lodge and iii ) a light on Gubberford Lane near the public toilets . |
| 11 | I have been asked to draw your attention to the following street lights in Scorton which are permanently obscured by the foliage of overhanging trees : |
| 12 | I have been asked to draw your attention to the following highway matters in Nether Wyresdale Parish : |
| 13 | I have been asked to draw your attention to the following street lights in Nether Wyresdale Parish which are permanently obscured by the foliage of overhanging trees : i ) A light on the north side of Station Lane Scorton outside Abbots House ii ) a light under the archway leading to Scorton Hall Park opposite The Lodge and iii ) a light on Gubberford Lane near the public toilets . |
| 14 | I have been asked to draw your attention to the following matters raised at the Annual Parish Meeting of Nether Wyresdale : |
| 15 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I was asked to draw your attention to the following highway matters : |
| 16 | I have been asked to draw your attention to the following : |
| 17 | Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to draw your attention to the white lines on Gubberford Lane at the river bridge . |
| 18 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to draw your attention to the untidy and overgrown state of the railway embankment on Station Lane , Scorton . |
| 19 | The Occupational Health Department ( OHD ) have been asked to draw your attention to the continuing need for prospective bone marrow donors to add to their register . |
| 20 | In 1202 the Venetians persuaded the armies of Christendom to divert their attention from the Fourth Crusade to assist in the subjugation of Zadar , whose citizens had risen against Venice . |
| 21 | And it is photography which Messager uses to divert our attention from the sweet nostalgia of an imagined past . |
| 22 | In 1987 it began to turn its attention to the inner urban areas , with the idea of opening small factories , workshops and offices in the hope that private industry would then follow suit . |
| 23 | Those party members who have been part of the fight for a fairer electoral system at Westminster may be wiser , for the time being , to turn their attentions to the internal so-called democracy inherited from those internecine struggles of the early 1980s . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Dury continues to devote his attention to A Jovial Crew , which opens on April 21 . |
| 25 | What we must then do , it is supposed , is to turn our attention to a primitive idea of over-all similarity between possible worlds . |
| 26 | Beetles had fed on the pollen of cycads and they were among the first to transfer their attentions to the early flowers like those of magnolias and waterlilies . |
| 27 | Because God is sovereign , this other person may well have been a tool in God 's hand to try to get our attention about a particular problem we are having . |