1.   A few moments later the telephone rang.

2.   A telephone rang in an outer office.

3.   As if to signal that the working day was about to begin, the telephone rang.

4.   As she opened her door the telephone was ringing.

5.   As Urquhart watched the proceedings with considerable satisfaction, the telephone rang.

6.   Eunice Bonifante was in the bathroom when the telephone rang.

7.   He was packing in his room at the Georges V when his telephone rang.

8.   He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang.

9.   I was having my breakfast one morning when the telephone rang.