Example sentences of "we set [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the three year programme we set ourselves a total of 33 remits , of which only 5 remain to be completed . |
| 2 | ‘ We set ourselves the 30,000 target for our 21st birthday — March 1992 , ’ John said . |
| 3 | In 1 we set ourselves the problem of accounting for intuitions that some stretches of language are coherent and others are not . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We thought it would be a good idea to give them a chance straight off to have an opinion , and we set them a nice problem , which was that they put a marble into something and another marble comes out thirty seconds later . |