Example sentences of "going [prep] the motion " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lendl , still trying to push the disappointment of his United States Open defeat by Boris Becker to the back of his mind and impatient for another crack at the elusive Wimbledon title , appeared to be going through the motions during his round-robin match at the Stuttgart Classic . |
| 2 | I think they were just going through the motions of what had worked before . |
| 3 | They were going through the motions on television but their voices , face and body language were vividly clear — they knew they would lose and they were putting on a brave front . |
| 4 | But in this particular lesson the decision structure is something of a mirage , for as we have already pointed out at this stage the situation is not real enough for these children to be making anything but a superficial gesture — going through the motions of making a decision . |
| 5 | For the first time she was really listening , not going through the motions of an argument . |
| 6 | But the picking up strikes a chord and going through the motions always works . |
| 7 | ‘ To me , ’ Once More ‘ sounds like a rock band going through the motions . ’ |
| 8 | We go to work , eat , sleep , get married , have children , get divorced , always just going through the motions without being involved , without sparkle , without real enjoyment or genuine pain . |
| 9 | But even they seemed to be going through the motions , quite without conviction . |
| 10 | He went on going through the motions of being a poet until the very end , and inevitably , because he kept in practice , hit upon some successes — ‘ gleams like the flashing of a shield ’ occur in unexpected places . |
| 11 | ‘ But if I 'm not enjoying it I wo n't make the mistake of going through the motions like I did this year . ’ |
| 12 | I was in just such a trance , going through the motions of doing what I was told , but without being able to do so in reality . |
| 13 | ‘ But if I 'm not enjoying it then I wo n't make the mistake of going through the motions like I did this year . |
| 14 | It seems the Colchester team are in a phase of ‘ going through the motions ’ and are certainly guilty of an unacceptable number of turnovers and missed shots . |
| 15 | The only way he can recall what he does is by doing it , literally ‘ going through the motions ’ . |
| 16 | On this occasion congress exercised its constitutional right to declare war , but , in retrospect , this seems to have been no more than a case of going through the motions — the age of crisis was well underway and the constitutional balance of powers would never be the same again . |
| 17 | If we daydream while going through the motions of reading we can still recognise words , and perhaps even convince ourselves that we are reading . |
| 18 | Books such as those used for beginning readers are useful for demonstrating this effect , and if you have found yourself daydreaming or thinking about a conversation with a colleague while " going through the motions " of reading to a child , this does not mean that your reading was inadequate . |
| 19 | Because if you if you if that 's all it is then you 're just going through the motions , you 're not actually going ahead and receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation . |
| 20 | But practice can mean going through the motions just as much as accumulating factual knowledge . |
| 21 | But he had felt that he was still the same Mark Underwood , drearily going through the motions of belief instead of drearily going through the motions of disbelief ; that the searing , galvanic experience men called conversion was like an unexploded bomb ticking away inside him . |
| 22 | But he had felt that he was still the same Mark Underwood , drearily going through the motions of belief instead of drearily going through the motions of disbelief ; that the searing , galvanic experience men called conversion was like an unexploded bomb ticking away inside him . |
| 23 | Er then election day we were out all day with , with a driver of a car getting people out and for them or going through the motions . |
| 24 | Mechanically going through the motions , repeating his words , hardly aware of the small Monday night audience , hardly aware of the new girl hesitantly feeding him Lesley-Jane 's lines , he was in an agony of apprehension throughout the performance . |
| 25 | He shrugged broad shoulders , not even going through the motions of denying her accusation . |
| 26 | After that he and Paul trudged from office to office , going through the motions , expecting nothing . |
| 27 | We 're just going through the motions . ’ |
| 28 | yes it 's more it 's just going through the motions of a story at the moment rather than |
| 29 | What else he had failed to tell her was that there was a fortune at stake — and that the custodian of it was this Bluebeard , this marauding monster … who , even now , while she was going through the motions of hating him , was turning her body to liquid honey . |
| 30 | Ballymena 's stay in Section I ended after five years when Bangor landed a double victory last week-end and they 'll merely be going through the motions at Ballygomartin Road against Woodvale . |