Example sentences of "sense [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Later Jed had lost all sense of time as the external heart slowly pumped a solution of formaldehyde into the dead woman 's body , as the dead woman 's body began to blush .
2 The Hopi did not seem to need any sense of time as a dimension .
3 Arabs always seem to be either in a great hurry or without any sense of time at all .
4 I left with no passion for any single plant or creature but for all of Nature — its ruthless innocence , its secretiveness and startling revelations , the changing seasons and sense of time in a whole that was timeless , like the best of childhood .
5 The Labour leader yesterday intoned the word ‘ socialism ’ in a purely ritualistic sense from time to time .
6 A mother is in some sense outside time to her baby , and young children usually have no realistic idea of how old their mothers are .
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