And then, at the last moment, his father had broken the news.

My father broke his hand on a guy's head once in school.

So the father broke up the canopy, saying that he had prepared it only for his son.

Never in all these years did my father break the confidence.

His father had broken with family tradition to become a journalist in Paris.

There was a moment of silence, which her father broke.

She chuckled when her father broke in on the line.

"To name only the most obvious, your father would undoubtedly break my neck!"

In his madness, her father would break the door down whenever he felt like it.

Bob's father broke that news when he came home, looking worn and unhappy.