direct somebody's attention

So we need to direct our attention in the right sort of way.

I don't want any attention directed to us through him.

In recent years, more attention has been directed at these problems.

But their attention would be directed toward the outside world.

If so, attention should be directed at them rather than the legal system.

Once they were outside, his full attention was directed on the street.

You must have known that it was there to direct attention.

"You would want to direct your attention to other areas," he said.

It directed his attention to something like a small window.

These movies direct their attention to the present and the future.

"Do you have an unusual condition which would require my direct attention?"

He did not want to reply, but her direct attention compelled him.

Specific developments within formal education and their relation to the new English can now be given direct attention.

Chekov suddenly wanted very much to sit down and direct attention away from himself again.

It wouldn't do to give Kaeth too much direct attention.

Fast Eddie rarely paid direct, individual attention to nobody, but he was there now.

He claimed that everything in the world is absolutely dependent upon God's direct attention.

With all they've been through, they deserve the station commander's direct attention.

It is also associated with movement, coordination, and direct attention.

To assemble a list of great 20th-century poems would, if it did nothing else, direct attention to important works.