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Example sentences for "admit that"

  • And I was forced to admit that he had succeeded--deliberately or not--in making the respectable Mr. Paret just a trifle uncomfortable.

  • It was intolerable to admit that I of them all was to be left behind.

  • I should be compelled to admit that he represented something unique in that assembly if he had the courage to get up and oppose House Bill 709.

  • I had to admit that he had done a remarkably good piece of work in collecting Greenhalge's evidence, and how the erring city officials were to be rescued became a matter of serious concern.

  • Olaf, I admit that I treated you ill; I admit that I would have killed you; but, believe me, it was jealousy and naught but jealousy which drove me on.

  • Great place brings great temptations, and I admit that I have greatly sinned; I need time upon the earth to make my peace with Heaven, and if you slay my body now, you will slay my soul as well.

  • Now that is precisely what the gentlemen of the Academy deny: they are unwilling to admit that, if value is variable, it is for that very reason determinable; that variability is the sign and condition of determinability.

  • For, as I said in my introduction, in no case can we admit that humanity, however it expresses itself, is mistaken.

  • Renouard, if ever he reads this work, will do me the justice to admit that, in quoting him, I do not criticise his thought; he himself has perceived the contradictions of the patent law.

  • We admit that such a thing as pure earth, pure water, or pure air, is not to be discovered.

  • If we admit that evil is an essential part of our being and the key to the interpretation of our life, we load ourselves down with a difficulty that has always proved burdensome in philosophies of religion.

  • The believers in the non-natural character of sudden conversion have had practically to admit that there is no unmistakable class-mark distinctive of all true converts.

  • Perhaps it is; still you must, on mature consideration, admit that I too have some interest in the matter.

  • Let us admit that we have made a mistake.

  • We have to admit that literature is rather the fashion, without the violent presumption that the author and the writer have the same social position that is conferred by money, or by the mysterious virtue there is in pedigree.

  • He seems to admit that in these respects there has been some little improvement.

  • Though, therefore, we admit that a modern Tory bears some resemblance to a Whig of Queen Anne's reign, we can by no means admit that a Tory of Anne's reign resembled a modern Whig.

  • I cannot, however, admit that there is nothing commendable in the manners of a democratic people.

  • I admit that by this means room is left for the intervention of individuals in the more important affairs; but it is not the less suppressed in the smaller and more private ones.

  • I had to admit that I never had, an' he laughed at me good an' proper--but his laughs never hurt.

  • When I say they were there, those who knew the Court will admit that I have said more than enough.

  • I admit that in my extreme surprise I was ravished, so great was the interest I took in him.

  • I admit that I was flattered at being chosen at my age for an embassy so important.

  • He soon had good cause to admit that I had not spoken without justice.

  • Each time that he did so she was obliging enough to open the window four or five inches, but never half way; for I noticed particularly, and I admit that I was more attentive to this spectacle than to that of the troops.

  • No, that's another question; I am prepared to admit that they're useful.

  • Although, if she had been asked whether she supposed that in the future life, if he did not believe, he would be damned, she would have had to admit that he would be damned, his unbelief did not cause her unhappiness.

  • He could not admit that he was mistaken then, for his spiritual condition then was precious to him, and to admit that it was a proof of weakness would have been to desecrate those moments.

  • I should be very sorry to admit that a robust and well-disposed young man need ever despair.

  • I admit that we have not been slow to--to arrive at an understanding.

  • I do admit that, and that is why I shall make no row about the wine; I shall set it down as compensation to Lavinia.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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