| Once a year, like clockwork, the Old Delhi dam is opened, flooding the dry riverbeds. |
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| Well, listen, when I dealt with women who were having crack-addicted babies every year like clockwork, I didn't like them particularly. |
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| I hadn't seen Matt in a while, but his phone-calls were regular like clockwork, or had been until a week ago. |
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| Each stage ran like clockwork and bands had nothing but nice comments for the entire affair. |
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| The third hole is a par 3, and, like clockwork, there's always a backup on that tee. |
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| A picnic atmosphere prevailed and thankfully everything ran like clockwork, even with a huge entry of over 200 competitors. |
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| Everything ran like clockwork for the Irish fivesome who had to quickly move on to launches in Belfast, Edinburgh, Manchester and London. |
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| She gathered way quickly, went about like clockwork and stopped when the need arose as if she had power braking. |
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| But, true to form as with previously annual quizzes the event went like clockwork. |
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| The laboratory ran like clockwork and he kept a watchful eye on the welfare of his staff. |
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| You couldn't always expect things to go smoothly like clockwork, but he did. |
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| In wave pools, the water is chlorinated, the beach is concrete and the waves arrive like clockwork, once every few minutes. |
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| Her labour was going like clockwork when her waters broke on the evening of her due date. |
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| After all, she has been his forewoman for years, and knows him like clockwork. |
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| From the start we were well organised and the whole thing ran like clockwork. |
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| She came into season like clockwork, we took her to the stud yard, 15 minutes later she was back in the horsebox and we were on our way home. |
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| Like most things Korean, they run like clockwork and like most things, almost no effort is required to use them. |
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| But at SRC, we've built a system of mechanisms that makes innovation happen like clockwork. |
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| Everything that he organised was spot-on and ran like clockwork. |
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| A time comes when the groups that like clockwork appear around the shed have stopped appearing like clockwork around the shed. |
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| Each system runs like clockwork in some points and is clogged up in others, but the basic common direction of all systems is clear. |
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| Here are a few basic tips to ensure that everything goes like clockwork on the day you set off. |
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| In the past year, tomorrows have come and gone like clockwork and we're once again coming upon another spring. |
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| This strategy of upstream industrial integration initiated by the Jackel Group in the early 2000s will have developed itself like clockwork. |
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| Most of the time, events seem to run like clockwork with all events flowing smoothly according to schedule. |
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| The day would have to run like clockwork in order to load the 30 containers, 30 vehicles and 19 trailers within the allotted time. |
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| There comes a time when we have to stop routinely nodding things through like clockwork monkeys in a tired charade of parliamentary scrutiny. |
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| Or take him out on the hour, like clockwork, and praise him every time he does what you want him to do. |
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| We have excellent co-operation at the central level with the various battle groups, it goes like clockwork. |
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| I'm more than satisfied with the results of our hard work, everything's gone like clockwork. |
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| Freedom is knowing the myriad moving parts of your professional life are operating like clockwork. |
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| But Belle finds a way to get back, and like clockwork, her beast transforms from hideous to hot. |
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| The whole thing ran like clockwork, from pre-show to post-show. |
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| That dry run ensured everything on the big day itself ran like clockwork. |
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| Usually, railway crossings work more or less like clockwork. |
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| Protoculture supply was dwindling, the galaxywide war running down like clockwork as both sides' resources and infrastructures declined. |
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| Although the physical layout of the Conference Center was somewhat challenging, the flow of events worked like clockwork, primarily, it seems to me, because of the planning and design of the spiral-bound program booklet. |
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| So far, the collaboration with the Organising Committee has gone like clockwork, which is only to be expected with such tremendous football fans as the Dutch. |
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| I am faced with professional challenges every day as no organization runs like clockwork, but at UNOPS we are always able to voice our opinions constructively. |
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| But then everything went like clockwork and we accelerated the second season with a few more staff. looking back, there was just a single one-kilo pot of zinc undercoat which caused a problem. |
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| In all of this coming and going, Héma-Québec performs its humanitarian mission according to a precise and rigorous sequence of steps, which are executed like clockwork. |
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| Because our TÜV and HACCP certification imposes strict requirements on our hygiene, operating and processing procedures, everything in our organisation has to run like clockwork. |
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| With Leslie on the job, minutes are sent out like clockwork. |
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| Freight transport on rails runs like clockwork around the clock. |
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| People drop their dogs off at Dogwatch, and the rest of the dog day goes like clockwork. |
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| Most of the time, things run like clockwork, except at certain moments. |
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| Also, the administrative system works like clockwork. |
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| It seems almost like clockwork that every few months or so some new issue comes out of the woodwork and we all act like it is the end of the world as we know it. |
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| The large number of bed spaces, the diversity of ways of getting around the city, and its strategic situation all ensure that your visit will go like clockwork. |
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| Check-in ran like clockwork and after unpacking, we bimbled off to the cycle centre, hired two bikes and a kiddy trailer for the boys and set off to get our bearings. |
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