The telephone rang, taunting his impatience, arousing his awareness of the man he had left in the drawing-room.

It was during the commercial break that the telephone rang.

As a firing squad drew near, the terrified prisoners heard a telephone ringing in the camp commandant's office.

The first inkling that he was about to be embarrassed by his former wife was when the telephone rang on Wednesday morning.

The telephone rang in Mount Street at nine o'clock that July morning.