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1. "Whatever papers there are in that lock box, I've looked at them a dozen times and never noticed
2. Grandma would usually lock her in a closet if she didn’t feel like dealing with her that day
3. This planet succumbs to gravitational lock before this sun burns out, but they calculate they have about another billion Earth years, they think fusion power would seriously deplete the planet of water in less than two hundred million
4. There had been a lock on the container that looked too expensive for it to be there
5. They're still up north in a lock box in the house I sold to Jorma and Venna
6. We lock eyes and the palm turns into a fist
7. “I could just pick the lock,” Nancy offered
8. “Now, I should have applied just enough that the liquid will bypass the lock’s structural integrity for a matter of moments, allowing me to bend it like rubber and open the door before the lock returns to a solid state,” Ackers thought out loud
9. This will not only lock up money without giving any return, it also would mean loss when the design is changed when you finally need it
10. Ackers detached his keypad box and threw both it and his lock picking gadget into his backpack
11. It was like the ultimate skeleton key, able to open any lock
12. "I have delivered lock fittings bigger than this but that was at competitive wages
13. "That's why we call it lock fittings," doostEr said
14. were rusted beyond hope of opening, fused together at hinge and at lock, clinging to
15. almost immediately heard a key turning in the door lock
16. Usually there is a long tense scene of trying to get the lock open as the first obstacle in the gauntlet
17. He motions to one of the soldiers, who comes over, puts Khalid in a head lock
18. A key turns in the lock of the cell door and a GUARD
19. A key rattles in the lock and the door opens
20. There was no doubt that the shuttlecraft was on course to reach Narrulla's Tear, and could couple with the old lock on the Lula in as little as two hours
21. lock and the heavy, ratchet grumble of sliding tumblers
22. ’ She said over coffee in her kitchen one afternoon as I am waiting to lock up the hall after the dancing session
23. At first, when the long hours of silence were rudely interrupted by activity out in the corridor, I did not believe in the sounds that came from the world outside of my cell: boots on ladder rungs, a scuff of rubber soles across rough concrete, and finally the sound of a key in a lock
24. Too often the men of the congregation think the only responsibility is to hire, fire the preacher; count noses at the assemblies, lock and unlock the building, and count the contribution
25. A door lock
26. "This is a lock from your first haircut
27. When Robbie returned to collect my breakfast tray and lock me down for the day I stood up and touched him on the arm
28. I lay there in a blissful stupor until the chill of the floor started to lock the muscles in my back
29. I heard a key in a lock
30. The key in my lock turned
31. Robbie stood up and turned to leave the room and lock us in for the night, but he paused just before he reached the door
32. Menachem and I sat talking for an hour before we heard the key turn in the lock once more
33. The key turned in the lock as always, and in walked Robbie and The Man, their ever-present leader, their Knight Templar
34. I waited for the key to turn in the lock
35. With the coming of night and lock down, Menachem and I now slept together, moving our mattresses next to each other
36. He could not remember ever getting those papers out after that incident could he? He had never told Ava those papers were there had he? He knew that lock box contained her most important old personal records
37. There were lines of ships and rafts anchored off every lock entry, ropes being paddled in and out, barges being drawn both ways in a complex ballet who's rhythm wasn't obvious at first
38. He was held up for a good fraction of an hour in a big rope-snarl across the whole canal coming from the upstream lock
39. “Because he does not kill when the king commands, the long lock warrior
40. high above the lock and key
41. They wait or they turn the key in the lock,
42. Horns lock across a kitchen table, where the number,
43. Desa had done lock once in her life, during practice on Yandrille while Isandra taught her
44. (chops off a lock of her hair
45. Press your chin firmly against your chest in a chin lock and place your hands, palms down, facing the opposite way to your legs
46. They braved a decade of cantankerous lock operators and a five year delay in a smelly old desert city in Goblin country when a drought dried up a canal for awhile
47. I started off with a lock down room of course right away where there was a mattress on the floor
48. This didn't please me because I had figured it was my "furious thunder" that loosened the lock
49. Oh David - practicalities, Sally – how about you put all the special, personal items in this room and lock it - there’s plenty of room in the rest of the house for the tenants to use - that might be the best solution for the time being
50. The sound of a key in the lock makes me jump – I’m not used to it
1. Still, good manners kept her locked in place even if it ended up costing her life
2. · Keep medications out of reach or locked away
3. “I can’t believe how sharp you keep this thing,” Nancy commented as she kept her eyes locked on Scar
4. They were locked in a neutral expression, and couldn’t move their mouths or any other part of their head besides their neck and eyes
5. So now the next step had to do with bypassing the locked door
6. It was definitely locked
7. Some things had to be investigated instead of assumed, and now that he knew for sure the door was locked, he knew exactly how to proceed
8. “I am just locked out of my house
9. But Doreen assured me that he oversaw Dan putting all the stuff back into the cupboard and locked it up securely
10. But how did he get hold of the gun? Henry keeps all the props locked up … Dan would have had to ask for it, borrowed the key or something
11. ’ She said once I have locked the car
12. This special mixture, when applied to plants/soil, can release locked up minerals; improve the cation-exchange in the soil, and has chelation abilities
13. Enzymes are important to plants in that they help to release minerals, nutrients that are locked up in the soil
14. with eyes locked in their own soul-deep and soundless embrace, the couple began to
15. I want him on the other side of a locked and bolted
16. How odd, he thought, it sounds as though I’m being locked in
17. ‘I left all my personal stuff … school reports and the like … in a trunk locked in the roof there
18. It took some time, but by mid afternoon, we had packed all her furniture into the van and she locked the house up for the last time
19. Our eyes were still locked together
20. We’ve got the gates locked here
21. The atmosphere shouldn't be too bad here, a little integration should render it out, so she locked the scope on it and let it focus
22. Locked down with the shock, bound in chains of fear, I tried to break my bonds by lashing out at phantoms amid irrational bouts of bravado
23. "Wambach is getting locked in a hold
24. Out of the corner of my eye, through my own tears, I could just about see that he was sweating, that he too was breathing hard, that he was locked into the violence of the moment
25. He should have locked the door, this was technically a security violation, but Jaseem was in no mood to study schematics if he even paid any attention
26. It struck me that the bastards had locked me in
27. She gets about half way to the desk before turning back with her eyes locked on him, speaking loudly this time,
28. I listened dumbly to the sound of receding footsteps and the soft snick of a door closing and being locked
29. " He came out and locked the office, keeping it and the children safe from each other
30. With that he closed the door and locked us in
31. Then he too broke the chains of captivity, and locked Menachem into his own arms so that they could start the dance all over again
32. There followed a storm of soundless lovemaking during which she engulfed him, forcing his penetration ever deeper until they ultimately found their symphonic tempo, and always, even in climax, their eyes remained locked together
33. And with that the lord of Mirage left Son locked in the treasure chamber
34. He is locked up in the pit for 1000 years
35. ‘For one thing, my taw stones are still locked up in my house and I feel half-naked without them
36. He, at another time, took the most noble and wisest of the sages of his time, and locked them into a stadium in Jericho, and then said, “When I die, I want you to kill everyone in this stadium
37. locked in the eternity of this hard embrace,
38. They were then pushed into the cage and the gate locked
39. As you experienced when you retrieved your tawstones, the memories were locked away safely
40. they’re not locked away, they’re out there, this is live,
41. She locked in on that, saw where that must have gone, made sure there was nothing else in the area, and drew an arrow sighted toward that area
42. They were locked in the rear workshop
43. and institutions locked into the sambo-mentality,
44. It is the host, the revel, arms locked in arms,
45. Catwhiskers locked the workshop as Cosmicblasto ran ahead
46. that you are locked
47. Lardyme left the room and locked it behind her
48. His eyes locked on Kate as he descended the mountain
49. silence, the world hushed between us, locked in the process
50. she is locked down, on the outside within
1. I’m sure he smiled at me before closing and then locking the door
2. She glanced through it, selected several and handed them to Kara, replacing the balance and locking them again
3. The nerve they had, locking the door on me in the first place
4. We hear the sound of footsteps pounding along the corridor as Ben escapes from his sister’s wrath by locking himself in the bathroom
5. He considered locking the door for a quick one when the phone beeped
6. Some of the shop owners were just locking up for the day as Harry strode by them with his entourage in tow
7. When they reached each new station, they were to keep their arms raised without locking their elbows, and with their backs straight
8. Contour formed brass balls for feet were fashioned onto the corners as added protection from idle scuffing and a brass locking latch was fitted to the front center
9. Roman looked back at him, his mouth locking away secrets in his head
10. ” Harry was locking the door behind him and following her along the passage already
11. Before you can blink, word will spread and we all will be saying it---because our inns and hotels will go unoccupied, our stores will have to close their doors, and if this goes unchecked we shall each have to start locking our own doors at night!”
12. “What kind of deviant locking device is this!?” she asked
13. But I had to do something to stop him from locking you up
14. Heather scampered down the hallway to her room, shutting and locking
15. She cursed herself for such a fool for locking herself into this tiny little can because she thought she was going to crack the secrets of native communications
16. While the other stevedores were distracted, Edgar removed the locking cones from where the containers were to be clamped in place
17. "You're nothing but skin and bones!" said the witch, locking Hansel into a cage
18. Asmodeus leaned forth and sniffed my flesh before locking his eyes with my own
19. As quickly as Kallias had been struck by some unseen horror, the Breton felt a harsh blow from the side, her entire body tensing and ultimately locking in place as a result - unable to move
20. ‘The locking device has to check all’s clear,’ Alistair explained as he pushed the door open
21. Doris lifted her legs, as she should have done in the first place, and brought them together behind his, locking her ankles and feet securely while at the same time holding his buttocks down with her hands
22. Most of the teeth on the locking cog had sheared off, leaving the door free to slide in its track
23. “The short version is that Mars is pissed with us for locking him up
24. walk out with the program, locking the door
25. The guards approached the large metal door at the foot of the imposing tower and disabled the electronic locking system
26. Only a phased gamma-ray microburst could read the locking codes without being detected
27. The other was a rectangular block of wood with a locking doorknob in it
28. about locking the place, making sure doors were secured, and insuring that the coast was clear before I headed out the door
29. Locking the shed, he headed home in his old Fiat, trying to ignore the squeal of a dry bearing somewhere deep inside the engine
30. Amaranthe turned, locking the expression of an eager merchant onto her face
31. I went in and relieved myself, not locking the door
32. Tossing her head angrily, Broshee squeezed her eyes tight shut, locking in the tears, determined not to show her hurt
33. Sending out his anima, the Teller sought the old Custodian's aura, locking his thoughts onto the tenuous contact, flooding Grey's mind with his own determination
34. Locking his jaws around the badger's leg, Brokin threw his weight forward, twisting his head savagely, breaking the bone in the guard's leg, as though it was a twig
35. Our daily routine continued as usual; I left for work in the morning locking the door, and returned at night with food
36. "Something about locking you up at the first opportunity, I think it was
37. After locking his bike in the garage, he hurried along the garden path, into the hall and up to the bedroom, where he dug out his best shirt
38. Locking my fingers around the arms of the seat, I closed my eyes, trying my best not to throw up, every nerve burning as though it were on fire
39. The sound of that locking door, left little doubt
40. Howard-Smythe reported that a party had returned from locking out the switch at the far end of the long section of siding where our train sat
41. After locking the front and back doors with a set of keys he’d found hanging on a hook in the hall, Payne did a quick but thorough search upstairs
42. Payne grabbed the man in a strangle hold, pressing his forearm into the back of his neck, locking it off by grasping his other arm
43. I slid to a stop, the rear brake locking up as I stood on it
44. Gesturing for them to follow him, he led them out into the street, and after locking the shop once again, he asked them to come with him
45. Mike fingered the mouse, locking in on
46. ‘Is there any way I can open this window, Dave?’ ‘Yes, I’ll turn off the locking device’
47. locking the bars behind him
48. Barret, his eyes locking with Cloud’s
49. She remembered locking the door and dropping the keys in the same zippered pocket in her bag where she always kept them
50. “You will wait here,” the guard said, closing the door, locking it from the outside and leaving us in the dark
1. "There's better locks out that way
2. He locks eyes with me as the right hand makes a fist, pumping a stabbing motion into an imaginary chest
3. ‘What things?’ Adrian asked as he locks the door behind us
4. black, his flowing locks streaming in the winds and currents of calamitous fatality as
5. Tipperary even had a pressurized atmo now and it was good to get his helmet off once they got out of the locks, but everything smelled burnt
6. I tried to unravel time in some vain hope of stopping the days from ticking over into the new shift pattern, but the inevitable morning dawned with the usual sounds of boots on concrete, sliding locks and the dull metallic alarm of my breakfast tray being laid on the floor by my mattress
7. With each item listed in his panoply of destruction, images flowed and twisted together, images of limbs and contorted faces, of blood and bone and rock, and in the midst of it all, as if conducting a violent symphony of discord, there stood the man in black, his flowing locks streaming in the winds and currents of calamitous fatality as his arms gesticulated wildly
8. Lylas’ long hair as she washed the blood from his long locks
9. her fingers through his locks
10. "Alfred has determined that there are tide control locks in the vicinity of that city," she continued
11. Four unidentified items marked as ‘belonging to my mother’ … ‘a small silk bag containing locks of Karentze’s hair as a child’ … JJ must have those things … a section headed ‘For Karalintze’ which only showed numbered containers
12. There were locks open across the Tduun Noz past Gorunda thru to Trastrab now that would take this ship
13. A meander had been shot thru with a canal, then there was a complex corridor a few miles to the northeast, with a couple sets of tide control locks to pole thru
14. They continued on along the walkway until they came to a tall iron gate, (with several locks), that barred the walkway
15. Now here I was back between the cart shafts dragging a schedule again, with keys and locks to my routine
16. I go over to the hedge while Alastair gathers up his music and locks the car
17. While Peter turns off lights and locks up, we stroll out into the churchyard
18. “All along the Konocongcus, the third set of locks and canals from here, the one with the strobing lanterns,” Ava was already beginning to move off in the direction of the dock
19. Doctor Jasari goes over and locks it, returning the key to his jeans pocket
20. Kulai’s mother was quite independent now and had a career as a janitorial inspector in a large retail operation on Second Canal and Gazzizon Locks
21. Once in the bathroom he slams the door shut on purpose, locks it and pulls the chord that powers up the heated lamp unit and the extractor fan
22. He walked from there, it was little more than three more miles but there were eight canals and all their locks in those miles so walking was much faster
23. There are indoor locks connecting the levels at two places inside the walls
24. I know where this is, it’s down beyond Seventh Canal about six locks south
25. Only two locks down from Seventh, it was out of the bustle of the major canals, close to neighborhoods she was familiar with
26. familiar with mechanical locks
27. It took over an hour in all, including two more small locks, just to get out of Chardovia, but once he was on the Grand Canal, the chop was only six inches high
28. He still had miles of canals and locks to go, but he would still get where he was going well before Nightday lunch
29. Kneeling down, she gently touched Crystal's golden locks, instantly she popped up and began wiping the sleep from her half-opened eyes
30. There’s tall crystal towers scattered all around, sometimes in clumps and often near locks
31. back the hair from her neck, either because the locks obstructed his vision, or
32. joint locks that would bring the biggest of men to their knees
33. Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them
34. From the bridge they had a great view of the back harbor where the Imoneea goes thru the great locks flanking Imoneea Island
35. chains and locks, and Bernadette explained that it was on
36. Her curly black locks tumbled down his back as she hung there; limp, her chin jostling against his ribcage as he ran
37. Sunlight streamed through the windows of his room illuminating the yellow locks of Nathalia as they tumbled down the smooth white flesh of her face
38. The dread locks turning point
39. Mark gets out, locks his doors, then disappears into the shadows
40. He locks the car then fishes for his key as he approaches the front door
41. A hooded robe the color of ebony did well to obscure most of him, but long amber locks persisted in falling forward
42. As he pushed locks of his auburn hair out of his face, he grinned at the two Nords - even as the bears prepared to swipe and likely maul the man beyond repair
43. Now, that being said, she also was certain that the Boss, in particular, and the Lascorii aboard in general were the most beautiful persons she'd ever encountered, and that the Captain had the longest auburn locks of any woman in Pim or Song's memory; that was just as it should be
44. Those same yellow eyes and amber locks framing them
45. The same statute permits, at the lowest prices, the importation of corn in order to be exported again, duty free, provided it is in the mean time lodged in a warehouse under the joint locks of the king and the importer
46. and joint manipulation locks, along with several throwing techniques
47. locks are the deadliest forms of defense and attack with this martial art, as they
48. boat, oar locks, and oars
49. She heard Kurt yell from inside the house, “We would need a wire cutter or crowbar - something to snap the locks
50. Elena went over and checked both wrist locks