Example sentences of "[pron] had [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | This was no way to conduct one 's life , as he had always maintained . |
| 8 | As he had always maintained good relations with a number of Swiss wholesalers , the products were well known and well received there . |