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

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1 You see , they 've got a card of the fella that did the thingy so , when they put him onto this other fella he says , er , yeah , his name were Mr so and so .
2 but I put him on some medicine I got from the chemist and it seems to have calmed it down but his nose is more er hot and cold
3 Put him into that
4 put him into that post .
5 Naturally , in view of the political interest of Lord Milton and the Duke of Argyll , John Main was not left to languish in the state of promoted unemployment to which Colonel Haldane 's enmity had consigned him , but although they were able to secure a port appointment for Main which brought him a regular salary , it was at Bo'ness , on the Lothian shore of the river Forth and directly under they eye of Haldane 's ally , Collector Middleton , who sent the unfortunate Main ‘ on every drudgery piece of business to different places to put him to all the expence & trouble the Collector can devise ’ .
6 He was already out there , virtually his spiritual home according to his team-mates back in Taunton , and it made sense to put him on alert .
7 Thames Water Utilities wanted to put him on light duties .
8 This was an attitude which , long afterwards , was to put him in second place to Phan Boi Chau in the opinion of the Communist Party which , although stressing the patriotism of both men , especially Phan Boi Chau , declared that Phan Chu Trinh had mistaken the principal enemy .
9 You pay a forfeit to put him in that race .
10 She 'd probably have the bad taste to put him in one of her cynical , satirical stories .
11 My sister and I put him to good use .
12 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 . ’
13 OK , we 'll flush him and put him on forced diuresis .
14 Ian Woosnam 's 69 put him on two under , Colin Montgomerie is one under after a 68 , while defending champion Nick Faldo ( 69 ) and Sam Torrance ( 70 ) are level par , Peter Baker ( 70 ) two over and Mark James ( 71 ) four over .
15 Sadly Cottrell slumped on the final afternoon to total 300 , while Nowicki 's 70 put him on 291 , two strokes in front of MacPherson .
16 With the gentry his charm and distinction soon put him on excellent terms .
17 Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden .
18 Forsbrand came home in 30 for a 66 that put him on ten under par 134 but said : ‘ I 've never shot 29 for nine holes and I missed a four footer on the last . ’
19 Some put him at average height , others said he was a tall man .
20 If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side .
21 Was n't it about time she put him through some of the agony he 'd caused her ?
22 And I suggested to him that I sedate him , essentially put him under general anaesthesia with morphine , and let nature take its course .
23 He liked to think that people put him above that kind of thing .
24 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 .
25 In a stand-up scenario , as the crazy newsagent , Merton was on form ( although rarely at his very best ) , but put him in one of his sketches and the limitations of his acting are obvious .
26 Ian Wiley of Ireland had a time some 3 seconds faster than the winner but his 5 second penalty for touching a gate put him in 4th place overall .
27 It 's a crazy thing where one child pretends to be a carrot and the others top and tail him and put him in boiling water .
28 Roughly , those over thirty-five , and I put him in that group , reacted with a mixture of impatience , embarrassment , and guilt .
29 Would involving Nebamun put him in any danger ?
30 The exchange put him in excellent mood for his breakfast .
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