Example sentences of "to own up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It depends whether they want to own up to it . ’ |
| 2 | AS THE USSR starts to own up to crimes like the wartime massacre of Polish officers at Katyn , the US is censoring its official records . |
| 3 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 4 | Mrs Abernethy grows more awful and Verena is no nearer to what she still ca n't seem to own up to as her heart 's desire … |
| 5 | There is also a natural reluctance to own up to being a ‘ failure ’ , so the students who do vanish probably include a higher percentage of unemployed people than do those who respond to the universities ' questions . |
| 6 | Have the courage to own up to your mistakes and to say sorry when you are responsible for any bad behaviour . |
| 7 | She did n't like to own up to the fact that she now stood a little in awe of him , and she had never felt like that with either Mr Martin or his father before him because , in their own ways , they had both been free and easy . |
| 8 | He faxes me , not to own up to being Clark Kent , but to draw attention to the fact that he is giving his surplus Y-fronts to Mary Loudon ( author of Nuns Unveiled , Chatto it says here ) for onward transmission to the homeless . |
| 9 | Or could it be that you are too frightened to own up to your own emotional weaknesses ? ’ |
| 10 | The new legislation included : ( i ) a law on private enterprise , which allowed individuals to start companies without restrictions on the numbers of employees ; ( ii ) a law on state enterprises , which allowed state-owned companies to offer shares to their workforces ; ( iii ) a law on shareholding , which allowed foreign individuals or companies to own up to 100 per cent of Czechoslovak-based companies ; ( iv ) a law on industrial relations , enshrining employee and trade-union rights ; and ( v ) provisions for the creation of industrial courts to settle commercial disputes . |
| 11 | He stressed that his government " stands for co-operation with the West and will encourage foreigners to own up to 100 per cent of businesses " . |
| 12 | I 've been wondering all day whether or not to own up to this . |
| 13 | Occasionally , is anyone going to own up to ever having said that to somebody ? |