Example sentences of "we [verb] ourselves the [noun sg] " 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 In 1 we set ourselves the problem of accounting for intuitions that some stretches of language are coherent and others are not .
6 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 .
7 We all regarded medicine as a religion , and we called ourselves the Society of Reason .
8 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 .
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