PUT IN / INTO (1)

put (somebody) in / into (something) = make someone go to a particular institution (eg prison, boarding school, nursing home, hospital etc)

examples:

• He was put in prison for two years for robbing a man.
• Don 't do that. It 's illegal. They 'll put you in prison.
• His intelligence was above average and they put him into a special school for very clever children.
• Handicapped children are not put in special schools. They just need special ramps for their wheel chairs and they can attend regular schools like everyone else.
• I put my father in a nursing home when he was 92 and I could no longer take care of him like he needed.
• They put him into boarding school when he was just seven.
• After that nervous breakdown she was put in a mental institution for a year.
• The baby was put in hospital for two weeks.