Example sentences of "put him in his [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | When he murmured and clung to her all the more , she was tempted to put him in his night-shift and take him straight to bed , but Sunday night was bath night , and he would sleep all the better for it , she thought . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ I put him in his early fifties , ’ said the Archdeacon judiciously . |
4 | He was in his thirties , I would put him in his early thirties , yeah , I 'd say he was younger than me . |
5 | So I can go upstairs and put him in his rocking chair . |