Example sentences of "be [verb] attention to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er ready to enter the flat , he would n't have been paying attention to what I was doing . |
| 2 | But Marie , although she had not been paying attention to his words , had been thinking , her mind wandering off along a track of its own . |
| 3 | Occasionally I get the unnerving sense that one or two people are paying attention to what I am saying . |
| 4 | What you have to steal : If you have an expensive car sitting in the driveway , or inadvertently let slip in the pub about your latest classy hi-fi , you could be drawing attention to your house as being potentially worth breaking into . |
| 5 | three brass things , no it should n't be seen really , so I do n't know whether I 'm drawing attention to it by putting brass things |
| 6 | Meanwhile , my first efforts must be to attract attention to myself and have myself removed from this common Bedlam in which I was shut . |
| 7 | She points to the teddy bear ( that one ) in the first picture and then points to the empty chair in the second picture ( there ) and assumes that the teacher is paying attention to what she is pointing to in their shared context of situation . |
| 8 | I am glad , however , that the hon. Gentleman is paying attention to what I am saying . |
| 9 | The first is to draw attention to what I and others believe to be clear injustices in the way in which he was treated before his death and the second is to expose the fact that the injustices faced by Mr. Docherty affect many others in similar circumstances , and are a direct consequence of Government policy . |
| 10 | I was paying attention to everything in the airplane . |
| 11 | Hardly anyone was paying attention to him , though the voice booming out in ‘ received upper class ’ English pronunciation had a soothing and hypnotic effect . |
| 12 | Tweed was unable to argue with her — it was too public and the last thing he wanted was to draw attention to himself . |
| 13 | Earlier this week Fryer , while on home leave from prison , went missing , saying it was to draw attention to his case . |