The latter is the usual pattern and I only know it to be his as the items came from the family.

But the storm, if it grew in the usual pattern, would reach them long before then.

The usual pattern is for a talk show to begin in a morning time period and then be shifted to the late afternoon.

For the next few days life followed its usual pattern.

The door closed, and it took her a moment to absorb the break in the usual pattern.

There would be no further raids until late morning, that was the usual pattern.

My foundation is looking for projects that don't fit into the usual patterns.

The cat had no suggestions, so I followed my usual pattern.

They'd had no contact since she'd left that morning, which was a break in their usual pattern of communication.

We followed the usual pattern of settle down, get married and have kids.