Example sentences of "[coord] put him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Already there was the smell of roast beef and the white-coated cooks stood by with their carving knives waiting to hack the poor beast up and put him between a thousand Yorkshire teacakes .
2 We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish .
3 He was , however , failing to thrive , so Maureen and I decided to take him away from Barny and put him into care , so to speak .
4 In fact , she thought , tonsure his greying hair and put him into a plain robe and he would have passed for a tubby , somewhat benign-looking monk .
5 Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time .
6 I gave him some aspirin , undressed him and put him to bed .
7 His mother was ‘ outrageous with joy ’ at the return of her lost child , and put him to bed , where in a day or two he recovered .
8 marvellous Missus will wash him off and put him to bed .
9 One day his inquisitors would take Master Learmouth and put him to the question .
10 Tom helped him into his pyjamas , carried him up the ladder on his back and put him to bed .
11 The story of the Passion continues with the statement by the chief priests and Scribes that they were seeking to arrest Jesus and put him to death .
12 He smiled foolishly as Josh undressed him and put him to bed ; he was feeling blissfully contented , but he could n't focus on anything very clearly .
13 The rest of you , help to carry the boy upstairs and put him to bed .
14 His return had been delayed by the same blizzard that had almost prevented Judith leaving Manhattan , and put him beyond the deadline Klein had set .
15 The agent told Mr Rundle that she had to check his ‘ card rating ’ and put him on hold — to the accompaniment of taped music .
16 My eyes then focus directly between the top of the windscreen and the roof , and if I 'm at the front at traffic lights , I feel like Ayrton Senna would if you blindfolded him and put him on pole position .
17 An individual suspecting that an unwarranted invasion of privacy may about to be published would be able to approach the council 's director , who , when satisfied of this , ‘ should instantly contact the editor and put him on notice of the complaint .
18 If satisfied , the director should instantly contact the editor and put him on notice of a complaint .
19 The sergeant followed him in and found him smoking and put him on a discipline charge — idling his time .
20 What Hornung had done was to take his brother-in-law 's famous detective , Sherlock Holmes , and put him on the wrong side of the law ; a friendly dedication acknowledged the debt .
21 OK , we 'll flush him and put him on forced diuresis .
22 Reserve general Ori Orr , chairman of parliament 's foreign affairs and defence committee , told army radio : ‘ In this case people apparently killed a man and put him on trial before he was accused . ’
23 It also made a pattern of sense out of the minor ordeals through which he had passed , and put him on his mettle for the future .
24 There 's a tendency to take someone like Lowe and put him with no-talent good-lookers like Robert Taylor used to be , or Tyrone Power . ’
25 He contracted with him in 1775 to come to the capital , and put him with M. Francoeur , to conduct [ battre la mesure ] .
26 But it was with the coming of sound , in 1929 , that Colman 's Hollywood career really came into its own : the producer Sam Goldwyn was the first to realize the magic of that infinitely poetic , English voice , and put him under a long-term contract which was to last virtually the whole of the rest of his life .
27 His first book , Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Puritan Revolution ( 1967 ) , quickly established him as an important contributor to seventeenth-century studies , and put him in the forefront of the group of scholars who were beginning the process of reinterpreting the English Revolution of the 1640s at the grass roots .
28 ‘ Then I got Harry out here and put him in a dinghy and we … er … floated down to the lock . ’
29 The court had taken Harvey away from his father and put him in the foster home ‘ until such time as the father can control his drinking and make a safe home for the boy . ’
30 ’ So I waltzed him across the road and put him in a doorway and left him for somebody else to find .
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