Sentence examples for could almost come from inspiring English sources

"You could almost come in to work here right now," Captain Heintz said.

It's quite new, always packed but very relaxed – you could almost come naked if you wanted to.

The circumstances behind that fateful scrape are teased out and finally divulged like the crime in a procedural, and the eerie light that emanates from the Strad's case could almost come from a black-and-white noir.

We'd have to surrender another income and left with HMRC's kind but modest parenting allowance (it could almost come sticky-taped to a piece of card) we'd be pauperised.

The director Jonathan Glazer, making his feature debut here, devises for them a setting that could almost come from the theatre, and Louis Mellis and David Scinto's script has a David Mamet-like quality of harshness and snap.

And the brazenness of a prime minister who openly proclaims his plans for tax cuts at the expense of maintaining decent levels of public spending could almost come from the dialogue of the recent film Riot Club, which, in somewhat exaggerated form, indicates upper class contempt for the "lower orders".

Re-reading "East Coker", I find whole passages that could almost have come from him.

My earliest surviving ticket is actually a stub, plain and yellow, which could almost have come from a raffle.

"Waltz for M.D.," composed by Mr. Rosato and set at a cool saunter, could almost have come from a time capsule buried in the Smalls storage room since 1996.

Skolimowski included various details – for example, gin-and-tonic quaffing policemen – which could almost have come from a Carry On film.

Finally, with Grizzly Man and Little Dieter Needs To Fly, Herzog presents true stories so strange, they could almost have come from his imagination.