As a teenage worker my mother had broken a recently established pattern.
Then the husband's 80-year-old mother fell and broke her hip.
Before the girl could say anything, her mother suddenly gasped and broke away.
Finally the mother broke free and continued with dinner.
It was then that our mother broke down and couldn't stop crying for several minutes.
"We could come more often if you lived closer," her mother broke in.
He looked at me bewilderedly and his mother broke in.
The mother cannot break through your protection on her own, except in dream.
This is the point where Oliver and his mother really break apart.
My mother could break a bone simply by knocking against something.