Example sentences of "[noun] that he [vb past] had [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They came to the pub that he 'd had in mind and climbed the steps to the door .
2 Well , Charles immediately set up the kind of court that he 'd had in London as far as he could , with a very set routine .
3 On 4 August , at the very moment that an important battle was raging near Somosierra north of Madrid , Nizan reported a conversation that he had had with President Azana which had left an indelible impression in his mind : The President pointed to the smoke rising from the distant peaks of the sierra .
4 ‘ I 'm not really stiff at all , ’ he said , putting his ski boot into a plate of gelantine that he had had in bed for dinner last night .
5 His problems in composing this lecture were no doubt compounded by the fact that he had had in the past expressed no great liking for Goethe 's poetry — " I ca n't stand his stuff , " he had once told Ronald Duncan — and in any case he now found public addresses a complete waste of time.Immediately on his return from Germany , he travelled to the United States for a visit of two months .
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