The door was locked.

went into the forward stateroom and locked the door behind him.

Morse said Borden let him out and locked the screen door.

Miss Celie's taken to her bed, with the door locked.

Her door was locked and the key was missing.

There were three -- one leading to a bathroom, one to the hall, and one to the room next door which was immovable -- locked or bolted on the other side.

Alec locked the hall door and put the key with his watch on the bedside table.

She fled through the locked door, unharmed.

Panic bars are often used in buildings so that a door locked from the exterior can quickly and easily be opened from the inside in the event of a fire or other emergency.

At the culmination of the ensuing months-long legal dispute, he watched, as described by Sandford, " millions of dollars of his future earnings being surrendered " in what were " uniquely generous terms for Defries ", then " shut himself up in West 20th Street, where for a week his howls could be heard through the locked attic door.

If such an action had preconditions, such as the door must not be locked, it would have been represented by.

After finding the door to their chamber locked and guarded, the Assembly met nearby on a tennis court and pledged the Tennis Court Oath on 20 June 1789, binding them " never to separate, and to meet wherever circumstances demand, until the constitution of the kingdom is established and affirmed on solid foundations.

Ben returns to the house but is unable to enter because Harry has locked the door behind him.

In the 2011 episode, " The Doctor's Wife ", he tries to open it by snapping his fingers, but the door is locked by the mysterious entity, " House ".

Examples include the door of the church where Cole seeks sanctuary ; the color of the balloon, carpet, and Cole's sweater at the birthday party ; the tent in which he first encounters Kyra ; the volume numbers on Crowe's tape recorder ; the doorknob on the locked basement door where Malcolm's office is located ; The shirt that Anna wears at the restaurant ; Kyra's mother's dress at the wake ; and the shawl wrapped around the sleeping Anna when Malcolm realizes he is a ghost.

SWAT teams and other police forces often employ small, one-man or two-man metal rams for forcing open locked portals or effecting a door breaching.

When a door is locked only someone with a key can enter through the door depending on how the lock is configured.

When access is refused, the door remains locked and the attempted access is recorded.

When access is denied based on the access control list, the door remains locked.

For example, during a failure of an ingress-egress control system, e. g., a user propping a door open somewhere in a building, a fail-secure lock will close, lock, and remain locked even when a user attempts to unlock it with the key that the user usually employs.

For example, if a door locked from the inside is left unlocked or is unlocked at the wrong time, it has failed ( in some cases, along with the entire system ), the door may be ( but is not necessarily ) fail-safe if its being unlocked does not open it or attract additional attention to its unlocked state.

During the period of Ngawang Namgyal's supposed retreat, appointments of officials were issued in his name, and food was left in front of his locked door.

He was locked in a maximum security cell on charges of attempting to subvert Ecuador's internal security by repeatedly proclaiming to the international media that he continued to be the legitimate President of the Republic of Ecuador.

By using a hydraulic, rather than the conventional cable handbrake, the rear brakes can be locked up instantaneously and repeatedly.

The most effective way to defeat Goliath is to stay locked on him and repeatedly hit him with the boulder, trying to catch it each time it rebounds off him.

Carburizing is a process used to case harden steel with a carbon content between 0. 1 and 0. 3 wt % C. In this process steel is introduced to a carbon rich environment and elevated temperatures for a certain amount of time, and then quenched so that the carbon is locked in the structure ; one of the simpler procedures is repeatedly to heat a part with an acetylene torch set with a fuel-rich flame and quench it in a carbon-rich fluid such as oil.

Yang Guozhong and An were locked in a power struggle, and Yang repeatedly accused An of plotting a rebellion, but Emperor Xuanzong would not believe it, although Li Heng eventually came to agree with Yang Guozhong.

When the front knee is straight and locked, allow it to bend again until you feel the bar come lightly into contact with the sides of the Power Stands.

No person shall be referred to a position the filling of which will aid directly or indirectly in filling a job which ( 1 ) is vacant because the former occupant is on strike or is being locked out in the course of a labor dispute, or ( 2 ) the filling of which is an issue in a labor dispute.

In a typical application -- the making of rigid urethane foam sandwich panels -- an amount of foam mixture calculated to expand 10 to 20% more than the volume of the panel is poured into the panel void and the top of the panel is locked in place by a jig.

Krogstad informs Nora that he has written a letter detailing her crime ( forging her father's signature of surety on the bond ) and puts it in Torvald's mailbox, which is locked.

The tower is locked during the school year and entering it is a Level 4 offense under the Victoria residence agreement for which the punishment is eviction from residence.

The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.

This system is particularly useful for basslines that have a repeating pedal point such as a low D, because once the note is locked in place with the mechanical " finger ," the lowest string sounds a different note when played open ( e. g., a low D ).

The sum and whole cause of the writings of this epistle, is, to prove that a man is justified by faith only: which proposition whoso denieth, to him is not only this epistle and all that Paul writeth, but also the whole scripture, so locked up that he shall never understand it to his soul's health.

After the customer passes through, the arms are locked again until another coin is inserted.

In the locked state, pushing on the arm has no effect ; no matter how many times the input push is given it stays in the locked state.

This was initially termed " splat cooling " by doctoral student W. Klement at Caltech, who showed that cooling rates on the order of millions of degrees per second is sufficient to impede the formation of crystals, and the metallic atoms become " locked into " a glassy state.

A primer that protrudes from the case may cause a number of problems, including what is known as a slam fire, which is the firing of a case before the action is properly locked when chambering a round.

Police could not identify any fingerprints on the devices other than those of the officers who had disarmed them ; however, Soliah's fingerprint, handwriting and signature were identified on a letter sent to order a fuse that could only be used for bomb-making purposes, and components matching those used in the police car bombs were found in a locked closet at the Precida Avenue hideout that Soliah lived in with the other members of SLA.

At one point, he found another clerk locked in a store room dead, an apparent suicide.

In this story, the coldest place concerned is the dark side of Mercury, which at the time the story was written was thought to be tidally locked with the Sun ( it was found to rotate in a 2: 3 resonance after Niven received payment for the story, but before it was published ).

* 1970 – Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.

According to Herodotus's Histories, the seventh century BC sage Aristeas of Proconnesus was first found dead, after which his body disappeared from a locked room.

Close binary stars throughout the universe are expected to be tidally locked with each other, and extrasolar planets that have been found to orbit their primaries extremely closely are also thought to be tidally locked to them.

Upon Théoden's restoration, " many things which men had missed " were found locked in Gríma's trunk, including the king's sword, Herugrim.

More impressive depictions of the Gigantomachy can be found in classical sculptural relief, such as the great altar of Pergamon, where the serpent-legged giants are locked in battle with a host of gods, or in Antiquity at the Temple of Olympian Zeus at Acragas.

Mary found the door locked and called out, receiving the weakened reply " I can't get out.

Thurzó's men reportedly found one girl dead and one dying and reported that another woman was found wounded while others were locked up.

At 6: 30 a. m. the next day, James woke up and went to wake Clift, but found the bedroom door closed and locked.

At the end of the story, Andronic and the female character Dorina are found on the island, naked and locked in a sensual embrace.

* The Benson Murder Case ( 1926 ), the best-selling first entry in the series of detective novels by S. S. Van Dine featuring detective Philo Vance, is based on the unsolved murder of bridge expert Joseph Elwell, who was found shot to death in a room locked from the inside, minus his toupee, physical circumstances which are duplicated in the novel.

However, Hidalgo was angry when he found the cathedral locked to him.

* A man is found dead, and his wife dying, in a room locked from the inside.

* Two people are found shot to death at point-blank range inside a room locked on the inside.

Mortimer had to enlist help to break open the locked door and found Harry and Josephine's bodies.

Tried, found guilty and sentenced to death, Fred is locked away on death row.

She invited the policeman who found her stolen car, the locksmith who helped when she was locked out of her house and her parents ' local shopkeepers.

For example, a Compsognathus fossil was found with a lizard in its stomach, and a Velociraptor specimen was found locked in combat with a Protoceratops ( a type of ornithischian dinosaur ).

After the killings, police found the family dog locked up ; Rusty advised Welner that it had normally been allowed to run free, and was so when he had left the house that morning, leading the psychiatrist to conclude that she locked it in a cage to prevent it from interfering with her killing the children one by one.