This is a ‘qualitative methods’ chapter. It is about interpreting and gaining information from concordance lines, and demonstrates different interpretations of the concept of ‘pattern’. The chapter emphasises and illustrates the essential link between phraseology and meaning. It also demonstrates the non-obvious meaning that accrues from seeing corpus data presented as concordance lines. The chapter then discusses types of patterns: the basic concept of observed regularity and how to handle possible competing descriptions; the more restricted notions of grammar patterns and local grammar; two extensive descriptions that utilise the pattern-meaning connection: Framenet and the Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs. The chapter ends with a discussion of identifying ‘what is often said’ and how this is different from the concept of ‘what the language is like’.