'take your attention off' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to stopping someone from focusing on something. For example, "I could tell that I was losing my daughter's attention, so I tried to take her attention off of the tablet game."
If you do not take your attention off the page too often to ask him to write about things outside his experience you will see once more how well he can write about what he knows.
An internal check-in can take your attention off of the chaotic outer world.
It will take your attention off the people around you and create a psychological cocoon, providing you with an illusion of privacy.
To take your attention off of being hungry, try watching television or playing a quick video game.
Avoid talking on a cell phone while driving, even with a hands free set, as talking will take your attention off the road.
For [wearable-computing advocates], the smartphone was kind of a letdown, because it's something that takes your attention off the real world.
Oops - that's what comes of taking your attention off PM for even a few seconds.
Still, time spent searching for an unfamiliarly placed control on the road is time that takes your attention off the road.
Aside from using cell phones, a distraction counts as anything that takes your full attention off the road, whether it's fiddling with the radio, checking or applying make-up, or eating food.
This takes the focus off your own discomfort and gives you a focus to help you take the attention off yourself.
When confronted with the fact that a number of said families have lobbied for stricter gun laws, and think it has something to do with them, the senator replied, insultingly, "Well, that's because they've been told that by the president".As for the gun lobby, it would like to take our attention off guns.
