He had broken the pattern of taking her by force.

But she helped break the early pattern of heartache for her country.

As with campaign finance, politicians who felt one way on the issue found a reason to break the pattern.

"Pretty effective way of getting someone to break the pattern."

Maybe Vendacious was going to break the pattern and not come up here today.

I always felt you didn't want to change anything because it might spoil what we had, break the pattern.

Just when everyone seemed ready to move in unison, dancers would break the pattern and do something else.

You wanted to show her how she could break the pattern.

And the result would be the same, with him the victim, unless he could break the pattern.

We're here to break the pattern of the past, not continue it.