Example sentences of "admit to [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least one DCSL admitted to recommending the most " deserving " schools early in the project to ensure that they were funded . |
| 2 | Robinson admitted to feeling the pressures of combining captaincy with team management in a busy benefit season , and evidence of tension was available in Chris Cairn 's dissenting gestures during a drawn match against Lancashire . |
| 3 | The animals failed to draw blood but , two weeks later , she was still so worried about getting her fingers bitten that she admitted to finding the whole business of pushing letters through a letter box as nerve-wracking , in its own way , as trying to hole a four footer . |
| 4 | This torture would be carried out every week until someone admitted to killing the boar . |
| 5 | Clandestinely Sun , which will only admit to tracking the industry , has already done some X terminals deals , sources say , including its agreement with Labtam in Australia ( UX No 391 ) . |
| 6 | Others , like Jon Swain and photographers Tim Page and Don McCullin , will admit to finding the war with its helicopters and guns exciting to the point of compulsion . |
| 7 | Such is the shame at being found out , that no one would admit to owning the orange stick . |
| 8 | ‘ No-one would admit to possessing the drugs , which because of the small quantity were clearly for personal use only . ’ |
| 9 | Despite openly admitting to owning the entire recorded works of Chicory Tip , Terry Wade ( 44 ) does not let his eccentricities interfere with his on-field performance ; despite his refusal to turn out on Eurovision Song Contest day . |
| 10 | In addition , a number of distinguished judges have admitted to breaching the exclusionary rule and looking at Hansard in order to seek the intention of Parliament . |
| 11 | For the Newtown abbey four have admitted to bending the truth when psychic Uri Geller was Kelly 's TV guest recently . |
| 12 | He 's gone into Boots , he 's admitted to doing the offence erm picking up some perfume from the counter in Boots , put it in the basket then placed it into his bag |
| 13 | Raskolnikov has admitted to visiting the old woman on the first occasion but of course not on the second . |
| 14 | A small number of patients admitted to missing the capsules on single days but only one patient admitted to stopping treatment for several weeks . |
| 15 | Simple life Nowadays she admits to enjoying the simple pleasures in life . |
| 16 | She admits to touching the Black Prince , so its suitability as a weapon could well have occurred to her then . |
| 17 | If anyone admits to taking the Tatler , they will find that one of the Clergy of the Parish , Dr William Oddie has contributed a major article in the June number on the appointment of a new Archbishop . |
| 18 | No matter how hard she tries to give up , she still admits to smoking the occasional cigarette . |
| 19 | In his introductory note Gavrilov admits to finding the four Ballades among the most problematical of all Chopin 's works to interpret — in terms of reconciling swift-changing moods with architectural shape . |
| 20 | Because all of us are suckers , whether we admit to reading the Reader 's Digest or not , |
| 21 | But men do not want to get into demeaning details about how they help with the housework : few admit to doing the washing up . |
| 22 | Mr Ashe is the second prominent US athlete to admit to having the virus . |