Example sentences of "to put him [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Lord Denning observed : ‘ In the OLA 1957 the word occupier is used [ as ] … a convenient word to denote a person who had a sufficient degree of control over premises to put him under a duty of care towards those who came lawfully on to the premises . ’
2 Erm I mean I 'm concerned again through his eyesight that i were we to put him as the assistant and put him on a machine , that he might just put his hand somewhere and get his hand bloody trapped or whatever with his eyesight .
3 Already he was capable , it seemed , of making that impact on the stage which was , in record time , to put him at the top of his treacherous profession and bring on the applause of his finest contemporaries .
4 He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government .
5 Mr. Mendez wanted to put him on a coach and send him down there in style , but Russell kept backing off .
6 One said it was pointless to put him on a waiting list , but letters from a grain merchant 's and from Littlewood 's Pools promised to file his application and interview him when he returned home .
7 I threatened to put him on a discipline charge because whenever the drunks were turning out , you 'd find him in the station writing some trivial bike without a light .
8 The other option for a Warlord is to put him on a wyvern or other big monster , but this is n't recommended .
9 It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success .
10 At the House of Commons he could at least rely upon one of the whips to put him in a cab , and pay the driver .
11 He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome .
12 You do n't want to put him in a corner and have him as an enemy .
13 Sir Alec Guinness 's head refused to put him in the school play — thinking he would never make it as an actor .
14 If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault .
15 That was good enough to put him in the lead for the amateur half of the tournament .
16 You 're going to knock on his door and you 're going to bring him outside and you 're going to put him in the car . ’
17 Booth will be hoping for a Private Greens league singles championship , and then an Irish one to put him in the frame for Commonwealth Games selection .
18 We decided , instead , to put him in an enclosure and to let the local people come and have a look at him .
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