Example sentences of "we [verb] ourselves the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we make ourselves the bar , if we suggest that self-determination is the right of every people on earth but the Germans , we risk creating resentments in Germany which could be quite as destabilising to the European order as reunification . |
| 2 | Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 3 | Outside but shadowing the DM , we deny ourselves the support of the system at times of currency fluctuation . |
| 4 | ‘ Outside , but shadowing the Deutschmark , we deny ourselves the support of the system at times of currency fluctuation . ’ |
| 5 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
| 6 | ‘ We set ourselves the 30,000 target for our 21st birthday — March 1992 , ’ John said . |
| 7 | In 1 we set ourselves the problem of accounting for intuitions that some stretches of language are coherent and others are not . |
| 8 | We set ourselves the task of uncovering the principles behind our feeling that certain stretches of language are meaningful and unified : that they have the quality of coherence . |
| 9 | The further along the spectrum we find ourselves the more we need knowledge and wisdom to be able to handle the results . |
| 10 | We all regarded medicine as a religion , and we called ourselves the Society of Reason . |
| 11 | ‘ We call ourselves the Unifiers — an inner core of trade unionists who are prepared to take a few risks to get what we must for the majority . |
| 12 | Once we grant ourselves the licence to collect the physical artefacts of software , there remain , at least at first sight , respects in which software is both like , and unlike , traditional museum objects . |