Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [det] attention to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concentrating on his first reason , Sophie did not give much attention to his last remark . |
| 2 | I did not pay much attention to it as the time , because we had n't decided which peak we were going to attempt . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They do not pay enough attention to the development of the company . |
| 5 | ‘ I must say I did n't pay much attention to that , ’ Maggie confessed . |
| 6 | On the tape , Beatrix says something I did n't pay much attention to when I first heard it . |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't pay much attention to your staff , do you ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I-I- do n't pay much attention to politics , I 'm afraid , ’ she said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Oscar did n't pay any attention to her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I first saw him when you were sitting out on the veranda ; but I did n't pay any attention to him . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't pay any attention to Aubrey , ’ she muttered in a voice still audible to her brother . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , I do n't pay any attention to what they think is best for me . |
| 18 | " When I 'm in bed and asleep , I dream , and I know dreams are rubbish , so I need n't pay any attention to them . |
| 19 | But Madam Deputy Speaker , these order do n't pay any attention to a number of matters in what I would regard as the public interest and whilst the minister as I say , has quite rightly paid tribute to professional organisations involved in this process , we must never forget that we 're here to represent the public interest and not just er er specific professional interests that may be relevant in each case and indeed in the light of what has happened in this field of enforcement er over the last two years , the minister must be aware that the public are requiring higher standards of commercial probity . |
| 20 | We would n't pay any attention to them if they started acting like stars , ’ laughs Leo . |
| 21 | Robin Cooper , a biochemist and MS sufferer , believes the medical profession do n't pay enough attention to the method . |
| 22 | Nearly all felt British companies did n't pay enough attention to the environment although they no longer regarded the chemical industry as the main threat , and recognised recent efforts to minimise damage . |