Examples of use of put someone on
1. "NSA cannot, under the FISA statute, put someone on coverage and go ahead and play for 72 hours while it gets a note saying it‘s OK," he said.
2. Bush should put someone on the ground who can marshal and oversee the deployment of all available federal resources, including the new relief money.
3. Bush‘s conservative base has long anticipated a chance to put someone on the Court who will espouse right–wing and anti–abortion views but many view Miers as a betrayal of those hopes.
4. Said the president, "I don‘t want to put someone on the bench who‘s this way today and changes. ... I‘m interested in someone who shares my philosophy and will share it 20 years from now." Asked if that was a reference to Souter, Bush chuckled and said, "You‘re trying to get me in trouble with my father."