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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By now I was talking and singing on automatic pilot whilst my heart and brain were thudding with a heady mixture of adrenalin.
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I've been on automatic pilot for 25 years.
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I leapt out of bed and dressed on automatic pilot .
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I was on automatic pilot , doing what I do best.
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If she could get to Tottenham Court Road tube station, she could get home almost on automatic pilot .
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She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself.
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We fool ourselves by thinking we can go on automatic pilot , that we can survive by going through the motions.
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What others do on automatic pilot becomes a tiresome, anxious, effortful task.