Example sentences of "[art] sense [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 2 | In comparison with the village or the ‘ pre-modernist ’ city , not just the sense of time but the experience of space was altered . |
| 3 | She did not greet him , but drew him quickly inside into another wide marble-floored hall , so similar in form to the previous one , with its glittering crystal lights and its wide forked staircase , that for a moment he felt only confusion , a sense of time warped , speeding him at once back and forwards . |
| 4 | As already pointed out , many middle-aged people have a sense of time lost and it is not unusual for resentment and opposition to arise to the ideas and activities of those who are seen as more fortunate . |
| 5 | There was a sense of time and patience running out . |
| 6 | In spite of much previous research to the contrary , the last ten years have shown that young children can begin to develop a sense of time … |
| 7 | He had no sense of time . |