Example sentences of "from [v-ing] the town " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Rosemary Sandford of Darlington Association on Disability said the move would disenfranchise the disabled from using the town centre . |
| 2 | And she added the move not to establish a special badge scheme would disenfranchise disabled car users from using the town centre , and force many to shop elsewhere . |
| 3 | For reasons we need not go into , Lord Exeter successfully prevented the main line from entering the town : it was taken through Peterborough instead . |
| 4 | They are meant to appeal to Tamburlaine 's humanity and hopefully stop him from plundering the town . |
| 5 | The walls of Caen were constructed in the years following Edward III 's capture of the town in 1346 ; those of Rouen were begun at the same time on the orders of Philip VI , making the city one of the few properly defended towns , or ‘ villes closes ’ of upper Normandy ; Avignon 's wall was started at the instigation of Pope Innocent VI about 1355 ; while the defences of Tours , in course of construction in 1356 , were probably sufficiently advanced to deter the Black Prince from attacking the town on his chevauchée in the summer of that year . |