11.   I was just beginning to doze off when the telephone rang.

12.   I was sitting eating my breakfast one day when the telephone rang.

13.   If the telephones had rung you would have taken fright.

14.   In the next room along, a telephone was ringing.

15.   She was waiting for him to come back when the telephone rang.

16.   The following day the telephone rang.

17.   The station telephone rang, a rarity in itself, since phone service on the island was virtually nonexistent.

18.   The telephone rang again and both women hurried toward it, jostling each other in the doorway.

19.   The telephone rang and broke my concentration.

20.   The telephone rang, and he answered it immediately.