Sentence examples for before I admit from inspiring English sources

"I've done it before, I admit it, because I live in a village far away from my friends, and pubs and clubs and taxis are so expensive," she says.

But, although change for the sake of it is to be frowned upon (and I'll die before I admit bacon has any place in a trifle), some new traditions are to be welcomed with open arms.

A participant noted that "if you write a policy that says anybody who's been admitted to a hospital abroad needs to be isolated when they're brought into your hospital, that has huge implications, and/or if you would say 'well I'm going to do a screening swab on every single one of these patients whose been hospitalized abroad before I admit them to my hospital', huge lab costs".

I think I was halfway into this book before I admitted that's what it was".

Though it was a long time before I admitted to myself that I'd nearly died, I had a few small breakdowns and would start crying about something that seemed trivial.

It was months before I admitted to myself that I almost bled to death.

(I've written about this case before. O.K., I admit I'm kind of obsessed).

Other pet peeves included holiday cards sent before December (which I admit I've been guilty of), the photocopied mass-letter with all of the family updates and well, holiday cards in general.

(A day or two before I meet her, I admit to a movie-aficionado friend that I can't recall what role she played in "The Talented Mr. Ripley," and he sheepishly concedes that he can't remember, either).

I was pissed off with the English-speaking world, I admit, even before seeing this.

In it, Whitacre walks through a GM showroom while introducing himself and saying: "Before I started this job, I admit I had some doubts.