Example sentences of "put [pers pn] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he put them on his arms , grew tired and left them . |
| 2 | She put them on his broad , bony shoulders . |
| 3 | Tumbleweed put them in his pocket and we picked our rucksacks up to make our way to the station . |
| 4 | Prisoners arrested for Forest trespasses ought to have been handed over to the sheriff of Rutland for imprisonment in Oakham castle , but Neville put them in his own gaol at Allexton , which was ‘ full of water at the bottom ’ , and bound them with iron chains . |
| 5 | Rachel handed them to him , and he put them in his inside jacket pocket . |
| 6 | Franco put his in his mouth and chewed it up , he was teething at the time . |
| 7 | But that slate quarry put him on his feet all right . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yet one must also beware of the sort of patronising attitude nicely expressed in the film of The Go-Between , when the silly sprig of the Big House observes , after an exchange with the lusty Alan Bates , ‘ I think I put him at his ease , do n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | Maybe the director , Pietro Germi , put him at his ease ; Alfredo , Hoffman 's bank clerk , is warm and friendly and likeable . |
| 11 | He sounded so anxious that Folly was quite relieved to hear Luke put him at his ease . |
| 12 | Now simply efficient , she finished dressing him , put him into his cot and handed him his final bottle of milk of the day . |
| 13 | That put him in his place . |
| 14 | Carol had told him before he went home , so Bissett knew what to look for — Carol was the conduit of all the gossip for H3 — and it put him in his best humour of the day . |
| 15 | ‘ I put him in his early fifties , ’ said the Archdeacon judiciously . |
| 16 | ‘ Burdened ’ as he put it at his trial , ‘ with the intolerable knowledge of my own beastliness ! ’ |
| 17 | The man with the straw hat put it on his head and produced a lighted cigar from nowhere . |
| 18 | I did , and he put it on his ring . ’ |
| 19 | He put it to his lips , hesitated , then knocked it back in one go . |
| 20 | He put it to his mouth and tasted it , then looked back at Wang Sau-leyan , his ancient face creased into a smile . |
| 21 | He held out his hand and she gave it to him , watching him as he put it to his lips , her eyes fixed in an almost mesmerised stare . |
| 22 | As he put it to his son Philippe in February 1946 : " one can not be both the man for great storms and the man for squalid deals . " |
| 23 | He put it under his overcoat , gently closed the boot , and tiptoed away along the yellow pavement in search of a yellow garage . |
| 24 | Obediently she put it into his outstretched hand . |
| 25 | If she put it into his letter-box herself she might well be seen . |
| 26 | If he was slightly puzzled as to why the familiar car that Louis 's mother drove had n't yet passed them , he put it from his mind as he enjoyed the walk home . |
| 27 | As Barney Hoskyns put it in his Prince : Imp of the Perverse — ‘ he is where all the desires of pop meet and tangle — their camp cupidon , their locus of signification . ’ |
| 28 | She put it in his lap . |
| 29 | The fate awaiting someone pitched from his horse in such a place might be blood-poisoning , ‘ being dreadfully venom 'd by rolling in slake ’ , as William Hall put it in his nineteenth-century fen doggerel . |
| 30 | As Longfellow put it in his poem ‘ The Village Blacksmith ’ — ‘ The Smith a mighty man is he ’ . |