"Attention was focused on your mother at the Convocation," Irulan said.

He was rocking himself gently, and it took him some moments to focus on his mother calling to him.

Suspicion for the death quickly focused on her family, particularly her mother and two aunts.

But Jack was hardly listening, his thoughts now focused on Ken and his mother.

In fact, a great deal of attention and joy are focused on the newborn baby and its mother, but this soon evaporates.

And she focuses on her mother more than she focuses on anything else.

She rubbed the small of the baby's back and watched the newborn's hazy blue eyes focus first on her mother.

I was glad their attention was focused on my mother, so they couldn't see me trying not to laugh.

Johnson tried to keep the talk focused on his foster mother: "She'll be the one that's going to take care of you, just like she's doing now."