Example sentences of "admit that [pers pn] have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their front row trio , Johann Styger , Willie Hills and Keith Andrews , admitted that they had prepared on the basis that they would scrum down against the most successful England unit in history . |
| 2 | Albert Speer , the ambitious , calculating , and rational power technician who had climbed to the top of the ladder , and who distanced himself most clearly from Hitler at Nuremberg and in his memoirs , admitted that he had seen in the Führer something approaching ‘ a hero of an ancient saga ’ and , after the victory in France , as ‘ one of the greatest figures in German history ’ . |
| 3 | He admitted that he had learnt of the Iran-contra operation in mid-1986 and had passed the information to his superiors , including Clair C. George , the agency 's deputy director for covert operations and a subordinate to Gates . |
| 4 | Richard admitted that he had listened to the advice of people who were deliberately trying to sow dissension between them . |
| 5 | On 5 August 1974 , the President admitted that he had known of the Watergate break-in in June 1972 , and confessed to his part in the subsequent cover-up . |
| 6 | Mr Engholm admitted that he had lied in 1987 to a committee investigating a dirty-tricks campaign mounted against him by the Christian Democrats . |
| 7 | Following announcement of the settlement , the government admitted that it had blundered in its handling of the affair , and on Oct. 30 Antall went so far as to suggest to parliament that he should resign ( no formal resignation offer was made , however ) . |
| 8 | But Shelley admitted that she had fallen in love with his music , which made it easier to like everything else Spanish . |
| 9 | On March 10 Gustav Just resigned as a Social Democrat ( SPD ) deputy in the Brandenburg parliament after admitting that he had participated in the execution by firing squad of six Ukrainian Jews in July 1941 . |
| 10 | On May 25th he resigned after admitting that he had speculated in the shares of companies associated with Daimler-Benz while sitting on its supervisory board . |
| 11 | The issue had already had a major impact during the election campaign , when Wolfgang Schnur , a human rights lawyer in Rostock and the leader of Democratic Awakening , resigned his post on March 14 after admitting that he had worked for the Stasi . |
| 12 | Kylie once refused to go on Australian radio to condemn drug use and recently admitted that she has experimented with drugs in the past . |
| 13 | The government has admitted that it has agreed to the directive only in order to conform to Britain 's obligations under EC law . |
| 14 | Zeneca admits that it has concentrated on too few products . |
| 15 | There are two sides to every story , of course , and obviously no supervisory officer was likely to admit that he had participated in an attack upon the position of burgh politicians known to be in the interest of the Administration . |
| 16 | She 'd needed all her courage then , to stand over him and introduce herself ; to refuse to be sent away , to admit that she had come to Geneva in vain . |