"Perhaps because I paid real attention to you, and not a theory?"

Why pay real attention since they have already been counted out?

But I hadn't until now paid any real attention to the figure.

No one seemed to pay any real attention to him as he entered.

It is time for one of them to start getting some real attention.

Not a one of them, thank God, had captured her real attention.

He had paid no real attention to things happening outside the College.

He was too busy trying to make us think that he's important to pay any real attention.

She was even lucky in a way that her mother never paid any real attention.

"I'm just trying to upgrade the quality of our shows and get some real attention."