It became a familiar pattern over the next two weeks.

Before a week was out, however, their days followed the familiar pattern.

The days followed their familiar pattern, but without Red it was not the same.

By then, she had begun to sense the return of a familiar pattern.

So far, the results seem to be following a familiar pattern.

Or is it that we simply fall into familiar patterns?

Following the familiar pattern in the House this year, the vote went along party lines.

He forced his mind to act in its familiar patterns.

A pattern familiar because I had just been reading such patterns.

The difference was, she says, it did not take her months to see the familiar pattern.