Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] maintain " in BNC.
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| 1 | Montenegro , which had partially maintained its independence for many centuries , was another added area of people of mainly Serbian characteristics . |
| 2 | I will always remember standing one early spring day near the river Severn , arguing with a drainage officer who had previously maintained watercourses now due to be reshaped as part of an expensive new scheme . |
| 3 | Mr Gummer , who had always maintained that he would act if circumstances demanded , said farmers were frequently forced to combine in very wet conditions . |
| 4 | In fact , it was probably decreasing size in those creatures evolving from the therapsids that spurred the need for mammalian endothermy when the problems of overheating became the reverse — when they needed later to maintain temperatures . |
| 5 | But they did not maintain an image ; or at least , not until an outsider pressed them , assembled one from what he thought were the parts , tried it out on them and modified it to accommodate their comments and additional information . |
| 6 | He did not maintain that there should be a return to the precise conditions of the primitive Church , but rather that the Church of England 's belief and practice were compatible with them . |
| 7 | Although the Rev. Jesse Jackson had formally moved his address to Washington DC in 1989 — thereby making him eligible to run for mayor — he had persistently maintained that he would not stand against his " old friend " Barry . |
| 8 | He had also maintained his FI contacts : principally with Ron Dennis , who had bought McLaren out from Teddy Mayer , though here again , the hand behind the scenes really belonged to Marlboro 's John Hogan . |
| 9 | One of her students , for instance , had told her that the class struggle was an obsolete concept , and an eminent academic had put forward the view that relations between capitalist and socialist states were devoid of class content ( he had previously maintained the opposite ) . |
| 10 | This was no way to conduct one 's life , as he had always maintained . |
| 11 | As he had always maintained good relations with a number of Swiss wholesalers , the products were well known and well received there . |
| 12 | He should have realised that the employment of a number of secretaries was both unnecessary and costly , but he continued boldly to maintain a lavish office establishment . |