Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] attention " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is trying to make explicit what lies hidden at another level , one which the participants , whether schooled or unschooled , are not drawing attention to themselves : the cognitive level . |
| 2 | Here the rhetorical approach is not drawing attention to arguments between cultures , or between ideologies , but the arguments which occur within cultures or ideologies . |
| 3 | But on receiving no reply , he seemed hellbent on goading her , and she found she had no chance to be passive , meek and mild , when he went on to taunt , ‘ You 're paid well , I 'll grant , but even so … ’ his eyes flicked over her good quality suit which , while not drawing attention to her figure , had been costly ‘ … |
| 4 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 5 | A short , dumpy lady shaped rather like a cottage loaf , she seldom smiled and woe betide anyone not paying attention . |
| 6 | TEACHER Jane McKenna was sacked from a riot trial jury yesterday for not paying attention . |
| 7 | A spur , sometimes inappropriately called a snag , is the result of either a breakage not being cleaned back properly to an eye or growth bud , or of pruning too far above a bud — a common case is cutting a bloom , and not paying attention to what is left behind on the plant . |
| 8 | I excelled at no sports at all , preferring instead to be one of the boys who was allowed to use the lawn mowers and keep the garden in trim — my one attempt at cricket was a disaster , and I was sent off the field for not paying attention . |
| 9 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 10 | But they were busy and not paying attention except to their own work . |
| 11 | She was licking her lips thoughtfully , not paying attention ’ And those exters , with the fur ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 13 | er but that the that the they 're not paying attention to what 's coming out of it |
| 14 | That her teacher says she 's not paying attention ? |
| 15 | They should have flown north in March , but perhaps they were n't paying attention when the others left , maybe deep in conversation or looking the other way . |
| 16 | I expect I was n't paying attention . |
| 17 | So , what if it says Simon , because I was n't paying attention . |
| 18 | It was n't as if she were n't paying attention . |
| 19 | But from what I 'm told , a woman driver , who was n't paying attention , drove into me from behind , throwing me into the road . |
| 20 | and I stood there den of iniquity in here , with the three of them , and luckily she was n't paying attention , she went on to something else and they all looked at me and burst out laughing . |
| 21 | My son , who 's in his teens , ca n't do long division , simply because he was n't paying attention , presumably , at school , and he 's always used a calculator since . |