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  • It had a key-operated automatic tailgate, a radio, and a buzzer to remind you to fasten your seatbelt.

    Summer at age 8 -- 1972 - BatesLine 2005

  • A single-cylinder deadbolt is key-operated from the outside; a double-cylinder is key-operated from both sides.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • A single-cylinder deadbolt is key-operated from the outside; a double-cylinder is key-operated from both sides.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Some building codes prohibit locks that are key-operated on both sides because someone could get trapped inside without the key during an emergency.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • A single-cylinder deadbolt is key-operated from the outside; a double-cylinder is key-operated from both sides.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Some building codes prohibit locks that are key-operated on both sides because someone could get trapped inside without the key during an emergency.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Some building codes prohibit locks that are key-operated on both sides because someone could get trapped inside without the key during an emergency.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Here was the building's second concession to the modern age-there were two key-operated deadbolts plus the door key, and a final key pad on which once more to enter his ten-digit code.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • Here was the building's second concession to the modern age'there were two key-operated deadbolts plus the door key, and a final key pad on which once more to enter his ten-digit code.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2000

  • There was a very solid-looking lock on the bar, a key-operated number, too, so he couldn't just cut a hand-hole and reach in.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

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