Elsewhere, sentences are left dangling mid-page or run breathlessly unpunctuated, with blanks, dashes and asterisks taking up where words and imaginations fail and square brackets boxing kindly, authorial interventions.
Pessoa never finished it, and saw it as notes he would then shape: sentences are left half-done or with gaps to be filled in later that never were, all indicated by a series of symbols by the book's editor.
Similarly sentences are left incomplete and grammar is ignored.
Barely a sentence is left unsullied by hackneyed-heroic bilge.
"If Paula had a bad arm," he begun, "Freud would say…." Mercifully, he thought better of that one; the sentence was left hanging.
At the insistence of the prosecution, Polanski received what's known as an "open plea" — that is, a plea where his sentence was left to the discretion of the judge, Laurence J. Rittenband.
Most of Ms Clarke's energy was devoted to the sentencing phase, when jurors were left to decide whether to send Mr Tsarnaev to his death or to life in prison without parole.
Aslani said he shared a cell with a dozen others who were put to death, including Jahanbakhsh Sarkhosh, who was executed despite nearing the end of his jail sentence – "only seven months were left", he said.
It's a scandal that those coming out of jail on short sentences are being left to their own devices.
To a first approximation, a property can be thought of as the thing named by that part of a simple sentence that is left over when the subject of the sentence is omitted; thus, the property expressed by is spherical (or the property of sphericality, or being spherical) is obtained by omitting a tennis ball from A tennis ball is spherical.
