"put him over" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase means to give someone something or help someone succeed. For example, "The teacher put him over by giving him extra tutoring."
Lawyer, having listened to critics and radio commentators putting composers over, decided to get a commentator to put him over as a big lawyer.
He put him over all the fences.
And that would put him over the top.
I believe I almost put him over the top.
Each set of contributions would have put him over the overall limits.
The two ultra-Orthodox parties have 18, not enough to put him over the top.
When New Jersey cast its votes for Romney, it put him over the top, making him the official G.O.P. candidate.
He got Dustin Hoffman to cameo in his introductory clip, so I guess that put him over the top?
Thain's $1.2 million office renovation at the bankrupt Merrill Lynch put him over the top in terms of sheer audacity.
Carmelo Anthony added 23 -- his first basket put him over 12,000 for his career -- for the Nuggets.
Nor the 230,000 people who put him over the top in Alabama.
