go through the motions

But I'm not just here trying to go through the motions.

You just went through the motions and came up with an answer.

And they had to go through the motions of doing something.

She went through the motions of living with nothing behind them.

In fact, we were just going through the motions after a while.

Well, at least he went through the motions of doing so.

You're just going through the motions of living your life.

He was a man going through the motions of living.

I was just going through the motions in my practice.

For the time being, he'd just have to keep going through the motions.

So much of his life was spent just going through the motions.

The other just seems to go through the motions but to be of little real help.

I think they were just going through the motions of what had worked before.

Really working for him, not just going through the motions the way I did.

No point in just going through the motions and saying words he does not mean.

But by this point he was just going through the motions.

In time, he learned how to go through the motions of living.

He went through the motions of doing it with his hands.

But I guess he has to go through the motions.

They were not looking for anything in particular, just going through the motions, which was half of all police work.

Everyone seems to be going through the motions of life while waiting for the end.

You're not just out there running around, kind of going through the motions.

You could see she was just going through the motions of getting her picture taken.

"Then why did he go through the motions of the meeting just now?"

If you still want to go through the motions, that's all right with me.