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From there on in it had all gone like clockwork.
I want tonight to run like clockwork, so you either play now or not at all.
Everything had happened just like this before, it was all clockwork.
It was almost like a natural force or a clockwork of nature.
"Certain as clockwork," I would have said in the old days.
His business with the clockwork was to change its speed.
All I had to do was keep him busy, and his clockwork would run down.
Once we get to training camp, it should go like clockwork.
Regular as clockwork, seven days a week, small business, we never rest.
She was like clockwork when it came to those Sunday phone calls.
You start to work like clockwork, doing it all automatically.
Ending the life of the man who took so many lives went exactly like clockwork.
"They come to my place every two weeks, like clockwork," he said.
Her shooting is like clockwork, the way she can get out of pressure.
Then everything began to run with the precision of good clockwork.
Which suggested that she might have gone looking for the Clockworks.
The thing had a bomb in it, set off by the clockwork.
If the cosmos works like clockwork, then so must man, right?
They had laid their plans so well that everything went like clockwork.
The two jobs clicked like clockwork, just as they were doing today.
I have no doubts that part will go like clockwork.
At the least it would be another wasted day, but the morning went like clockwork.
Every night around 9:45 it started, almost like clockwork, and rarely the same guy.
"He's in great form, everything has gone like clockwork for the last three weeks.
He made an adjustment on the clockwork, stood up, and held out his hand to her.