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  • "I can remember being single," she said, "and looking at the double-locked front-door thinking, 'OK, when did I last leave the apartment?'"

    Compulsively Deliberate Lizzie Simon 2011

  • After Josh left her, Zan went upstairs, double-locked the door of the apartment, and stripped off her clothes, wrapping herself in her warm old bathrobe as she had done when she woke up in the morning.

    I’ll Walk Alone Mary Higgins Clark 2011

  • Her enclosures are double-locked, and 27 closed-circuit TV cameras are trained on the property.

    Can a Howard woman keep a bunch of monkeys in her house? 2011

  • Her enclosures are double-locked, and 27 closed-circuit TV cameras are trained on the property.

    Can a Howard woman keep a bunch of monkeys in her house? 2011

  • The first few times these things happened I double-locked my doors.

    Rev. Emily C. Heath: Trusting Love Over Fear Rev. Emily C. Heath 2012

  • The second enclosure, which was double-locked and safeguarded with runes, spells, and the seal of both the house of Arthur and the Caretakers, housed the Black Dragon.

    The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

  • David Goldthorpe, the London-based Sotheby ' s rare-book expert who is running this sale, accompanied the book to New York late last month, carrying a key to each double-locked volume in his briefcase.

    Stalking a Masterpiece Ellen Gamerman 2010

  • The second enclosure, which was double-locked and safeguarded with runes, spells, and the seal of both the house of Arthur and the Caretakers, housed the Black Dragon.

    The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

  • His most recent frustrations: The park was double-locked for five days in April, preventing even key holders from entering; and on May 5, Mr. Clark reprimanded him for bringing 20 architecture and art history graduate students from Columbia University into the park.

    Two Sides Square Off Behind Locked Gramercy Park Gates 2010

  • Mr. Arisman double-locked his room door and then leapt out to the balcony when police began shooting the lock and lobbing tear gas inside, he said later in an interview.

    Thai Protesters Foil Raid, Free Leader 2010

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