Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb -s] [prep] me " in BNC.

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1 I mean th the , the analogy that occurs to me is of a dam holding back a raging torrent .
2 You get one of the lads that works with me , if he catches three of them he says well I 'll have them for my dinner .
3 If we can not guess Jacob 's motives , the storyteller makes them plain : ‘ I may appease him with the present that goes before me , and afterwards I shall see his face ; perhaps he will accept me . ’
4 We 've got this old boy that comes to me , often she 's told us his hands are rotten , that it 's all yellow and horrible !
5 There then comes a sound that seems to me like a brick or tile being moved .
6 We made a start today with the notion that seems to me most central to our inquiry — the one with which , as it happens , I personally have most difficulty .
7 One event that seems to me to be very important is Vatican Two .
8 'T IS a wild wolves ' moon that stares at me
9 One of his forebears was James Murray , compiler of the ‘ Oxford English Dictionary ’ , and when Les Murray went to Sydney University in the 1950s he spent his days ingesting the contents of the famous Fisher Library , which was ‘ full of the cultural wonders that bushies like me were despised for not having . ’
10 ‘ I go into my office and the single product name that stares at me is NEC on my monitor , ’ he said .
11 And he wanted to make similar remarks about our initial belief that though we use the same language and agree on the words with which to describe the colours of the objects around us , still we might for all we know see the objects completely differently ; an object that causes in me what I call a sensation of red may cause in you what I would call a sensation of blue , though we can never know this since we will continue to agree on what to say and on how to act in our differently coloured environments ( we will all stop at a red traffic light , for instance ) .
12 The wasted life and the wasted love that comes to me in the night and makes me cry out in pain . ’
13 The only thing that occurs to me is this .
14 The only thing that occurs to me is a mine , a marine mine .
15 The only thing that occurs to me er er and now yo your veteran day from last year a a does any of that , how does you know , cos he does it , how does any of that sit with Rob or do we just say right well we do cos
16 I think the thing that occurs to me , erm , they do n't always know , erm , what has just happened to you .
17 Ask me a question and engage me in conversation or make a statement that applies to me .
18 But it can be any image that comes to me at second-hand , whether it be postcard , film still , TV or whatever .
19 So it 's Broadhurst 's Wager that comes to me now , comes to me at three o' clock in the morning while I harken to the cooling unit .
20 They are the guardians of a door of a house that belongs to me .
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