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Example sentences for "put him"

  • I put him on the train myself yesterday, and waited until it started to be sure he was off.

  • She'll have to put him on and wear him for better, for worse.

  • Let us put him on the track, and if he can manage to tell us in vulgar speech what he has seen and heard, we shall soon know everything that is happening in the province.

  • At first the cure had given him of this manna only with a sparing hand, and while making him admire the lofty thoughts and noble sentiments of the philosopher, had thought to put him on his guard against the poison of anarchy.

  • Directly after Joseph came up with Hareton, to put him to bed.

  • Put him out of the door, Will," said Amyas, "or he will swoon on our hands.

  • I've put him in; and if you want him let out again, you must come and do it yourself, for my conscience is against it, sir.

  • Tell him if he fires again, I'll put him in irons, if he were my own brother.

  • The tribunal, however, was desirous to make his punishment more severe than that of felons or traitors, and not merely to put him to death, but to put him to death by frightful torments.

  • Mr. Davis sat with me a good while after the other was gone, talking of his hard usage and of the endeavour to put him out of his place in the time of the late Commissioners, and he do speak very highly of their corruption.

  • Home to dinner, and there I found my wife had discovered my boy Will's theft and a great deal more than we imagined, at which I was vexed and intend to put him away.

  • Haselrigge, and a great many more of the Parliament, and did stay to put him in mind of me.

  • What have I ever done to put him under an obligation to me?

  • Very good; I'll put him into a corner and allow him so much a day.

  • They're immense, your attractions, and he would never have presumed to think of you if she hadn't put him up to it.

  • This measure, which was very wisely taken by his Majesty, put him in the bad graces of Mademoiselle Bourgoin; and another incident added still more to the displeasure of the actress.

  • The Queen, his wife, often made signs to put him on right road, and even whispered to him, what he should say or do; but this rendered only the more conspicuous his absolute want of presence of mind.

  • We put him in a loft, sir, and then I told Tom that he was not Campbell's thief at all.

  • As we stood staring at it through the iron grille set in the archway of the lodge, Nick declared that it put him in mind of some of the chateaux he had seen in France, and he crossed the street to get a better view of the premises.

  • Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse Full of crusadoes; and, but my noble Moor Is true of mind and made of no such baseness As jealous creatures are, it were enough To put him to ill thinking.

  • Nay, good my lord, put him to't; let him have his way.

  • Your wisdom should show itself more richer to signify this to the doctor; for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far more choler.

  • Marry, will I; and you shall help to put him i' th' ground.

  • Laughter, groans, hisses, cries of "put him out.

  • Clemens went below, where he expected Captain Klinefelter to put him in irons, perhaps, for it was thought to be felony to strike a pilot.

  • Some time afterwards Barnum wrote to his friend and asked his permission to put him into a new book then in course of preparation.

  • This cost Barnum many valuable specimens, and often "put him to his trumps" for an excuse to avoid giving them things which he could not part with.

  • This being the case it was needless to put him to the pain and trouble of being undressed.

  • It will never do to put him in the stable; the Yankees come in and out and they'd take him off sharp enough if their eyes fell on him.

  • Put him in a room, and stay there with him.

  • At least, I did; not my dear aunt, who was compassionate of him, however thoroughly she condemned his ruinous extravagance, and the shifts and evasions it put him to.

  • And when Leonard thanked him, and said he hoped to get off to Cambridge, he laughed that horrid fat laugh, and told him learning would never put him in good case.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beside her; both armies; bread made; catch cold; change direction; four kings; good length; knew more; line ahead; metallic copper; put down; put her; put him; put his; put into; put off; put out; put them; put you; putting himself; putting them; putting things; sees himself; solid silver; who went; yonder hill