Sentence examples for half of a sentence from inspiring English sources
We merged a prosodically neutral head of a sentence to a second half of a sentence that differed in emotional and/or linguistic prosody.
It's a standard structure: set up an expectation based on one half of a sentence (or, in this case, word), then say something based on the other half.
This is a conversation which we would have given much to overhear in its entierety, but unfortunately we caught only the last half of a sentence, dropped by one of two ladies who were bustling along in front of the Astor: "...but PM is cuter".
I don't know how Lee was able to create a narrator who is 6 years old and 50 at the same time, who can be confused in the first half of a sentence, and then answer that confusion in the second half of the same sentence.
Rather than squabbling about a third or half of a sentence, we should admit that the real problem lies in sending too many people – and the wrong people – to prison in the first instance, and we should push for more courageous sentencing that would keep people out of jail altogether.
Write a headline that acts as a hook... it might be a quote from a favorite film or book or it might be the first half of a sentence... you want to write something that leaves the reader wanting to find out more... one of mine began, 'Pssst, pull up a chair let me tell you a story about words... about finding them and ultimately about banishing them'.
Now, several years into a revived career, the unlucky Dutt has been ordered back to prison to serve the remaining three-and-a-half years of a sentence that everyone assumed was done.
Lennon could go from fluffy to spiky in the course of half a sentence; his humour lurched always into the surreal; he was an obsessive about the future but locked forever in the past.
Evans, 26, was released from prison in October after serving half of a five-year sentence for a rape conviction.
Hayes, whose arrest record stretches back to 1980, had served about three years of a five-year sentence for third-degree burglary, and Komisarjevsky had finished half of a nine-year sentence for burglary in the second degree.
At that time, he had completed half of a six-year sentence for the 1973 murder of three leftists while he was commander of an army regiment in Arica, in northern Chile.
