Example sentences of "putting him " in BNC.

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1 Originally , Geoff Huffer , Ile De Nisky 's trainer , felt his colt was immature and was going to give him just one more run before putting him away for an ambitious campaign next year .
2 Brian Jones , secretary of the Merit Table organisation , which brings together Wales 's 18 senior clubs , is putting him up .
3 Republicans began to express concern yesterday that the President 's personal commitment to China , where he was ambassador in 1972 , was putting him at odds with public opinion still revolted by the brutal repression in Tiananmen Square .
4 In Damascus some western diplomats argue that the Syrian army will keep out of any fighting , having achieved President Hafez Assad 's political aim of putting him in alliance with Egypt and Saudi Arabia .
5 He can , if the legal owner will not act as equity and conscience dictate , punish him , if necessary , by putting him in prison .
6 He felt sure the man had been paid some sort of allowance for putting him up , but it did n't look as if any of it was going to be spent on food .
7 A thought struck Mungo , putting him on the alert .
8 Casting around for a task for the Crown Prince , Palace advisers had considered putting him to work leading a development campaign within the Commonwealth , before the inner-city initiative seized his imagination .
9 They act out their role in a number of scenarios with an actor , such as meeting for the first time , attracting the man 's attention , and putting him off the trail .
10 And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it .
11 They 're putting him on my tummy — he 's red all over ( not just his nose ! ) and completely bald .
12 He was hoping , no doubt , to be told that Mr Wilcox was n't in yet , so that he could leave a message for Vic to ring back , thus putting him on the defensive , knowing that his divisional chief knew that he , Vic , had n't been at his desk as early as him , Stuart Baxter .
13 And if you 're putting him right over clubs , you 'd better be 101 percent right if you 're telling him that what he 's got in mind is the wrong thing .
14 I would n't be able to live with myself for putting him through that , but then he would nicker to me and I could breath a sigh of relief .
15 It is said that Ferdinand made all three brothers promise to defer to Rodrigo del Bivar , putting him virtually in loco parentis to the infantas , though he was still only of an age with them .
16 He 'll be expecting that , whereas there 's no point in putting him on his guard about the other matter until we 've more to go on . ’
17 For years he had an inner voice which was always putting him down .
18 Jennie then asked Katharine to come across the half diagonal in a nice , steady canter , and to imagine ‘ picking him up and putting him down again on the other leg . ’
19 Now the forces of law and order that left vandals to do as they pleased were putting him behind bars .
20 He also feels bitter towards Joanna for putting him through so much : ‘ In one respect I feel sorry for her .
21 The soulless , impersonal State had reared him since then , putting him through higher education and choosing his career for him .
22 She had been instrumental in putting him in touch with Liza although , as things had turned out , he could not help thinking that it might have been better if he had never bumped into her that day in Piccadilly .
23 WORLD champion motor racing driver Nigel Mansell will earn nearly £10 million this year , putting him fourth on the list of the world 's highest-paid sportsmen .
24 ‘ Everyone seems scared of putting him in his place , and we feel powerless .
25 Although she was nervous of putting him to the test , she knew that , sooner or later , she must .
26 At home this meant putting him out into the hall of the bungalow ( where there were no stairs ) .
27 Knowing this , film-makers added the devilish touch of putting him in crocodile skin shoes .
28 It came from a very smart left-hand catch by Hick , his sixth of the match , a reprimand by gesture to WCM for putting him down as having missed a catch ( Aqib ) in the Lord 's Test which actually fell an inch or two short of Hick 's fingers .
29 The officials who were entrusted with the task of putting him to death behaved with as much humanity as possible .
30 He had punished Gionesca by putting him in the horse trough and that was it .
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