Sheadmitted taking drugs / sheadmitted to taking drugs.
1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, inRailway Magazine, pages54–55:
However, a Carlisle newspaper got hold of the story, and at the half-yearly meeting of the Caledonian Railway Company, held on March 17, 1863, a shareholder, Mr. Meiklem, questioned the Chairman, Lt.-Col. Salkeld, regarding a "Chase of Engines," described in the newspaper article. The Chairmanadmitted that the statements made in the article were perfectly true.
2011, Kitty Kelley,Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography,→ISBN:
His sister, Patti, alsoadmitted taking drugs,[…]
2023 January 30, “Bangkok policeadmit to extorting 27,000 baht from Taiwanese actress”, inThe Nation[1], Bangkok: The Nation Multimedia:
Police officers at a checkpoint in Bangkok's Huay Kwang districtadmitted to extorting 27,000 baht from a Taiwanese actress[…]
(transitive) To becapable of; topermit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
The words do notadmit such a construction.
1669, William Holder,Elements of Speech:
Four bellsadmit twenty-four changes in ringing.
1761, John Mordant,The Complete Steward:
There is no treeadmits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth willadmit of a remove.
2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, inGuardian[2]:
"This shocking report proves once again that we urgently need a radical shake-up of hospital care," said Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society. "Given that people with dementia occupy a quarter of hospital beds and that many leave in worse health than when they wereadmitted, it is unacceptable that training in dementia care is not the norm."
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