Example sentences of "put him on [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 I mean I 've known wives er having bicycles ready in the , in the corridors of the house , where all the man had to do was to get his trousers on , if he was asleep in bed , she would come and open the front door , put him on his bike and away he went .
2 He also claimed a declaration that the refusal of the directors of Newcastle United to release him from its retention list or alternatively to put him on its transfer list was unreasonable .
3 Enough — in theory at least — to put him on his back .
4 During Head of the Family 's stage run , Sarah Long 's agent , Adza Vincent , watched a performance and was so impressed with the promise shown by Crawford that she put him on her books .
5 But that slate quarry put him on his feet all right .
6 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 .
7 We 'll put him on his way to-day , and you shall follow at first light .
8 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 . ’
9 They 're putting him on my tummy — he 's red all over ( not just his nose ! ) and completely bald .
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