Sentence examples for going through its paces from inspiring English sources

A couple of months ago, I observed a "regular" eighth-grade math class going through its paces.

We are in a rehearsal space in south London, where the company is going through its paces before moving to Drury Lane.

It was the sound of coaches barking commands and the sight of the school's cheerleaders practicing their routines and of Dean Khoury's father taking a jog around the track while keeping an eye on the football team going through its paces.

And – when I had returned the Lexus to its parking bay, and headed up to a rooftop test area, where the new home-grown prototype self-driving car, a friendly little two-seater bubble that comes without steering wheel or brake pedal is going through its paces at a community launch event – I meet Sergey Brin, co-founder of the company, in his T-shirt and shorts and Crocs.

Last night had the feel of mid-November: the Red Storm got to go through its paces against a weak opponent as a less-than-capacity crowd watched.

The game's installation program went through its paces, she recalled, and she clicked on "yes" each time the machine prompted her to make a choice.

In the Dallas office of Gerald J. Ford, the dealmaking machine he runs goes through its paces.

The cast goes through its paces eight times a week.

Ray repeats it again and again, as the band goes through its metronomic paces, that simple guitar line clicking over and over — first like a clock, and then shifting to something more regular, human, and reassuring, almost like a heartbeat.

"Identity," a piece of elegant directorial hackwork by James Mangold ("Girl, Interrupted," "Kate and Leopold"), goes through its generic paces with enough flair and mystery to keep you moderately entertained.

As the encounter goes through its faltering paces, matching the pained rhythms of Cate's stuttering speech, we are made subliminally aware of a bigger world outside, of a hum of crowds and traffic and a glow of tainted light.