1.   Visitors should watch out for Sidney the green parrot, who flaps around the garden performing his imitation of a ringing telephone.

2.   The dog reacts to a ringing telephone and tells his mistress.

3.   Avoid having serious conversations in your office, where a loaded desk, a ringing telephone and an insistent e-mail program compete for your attention.

4.   A ringing telephone does.

5.   A ringing telephone goes unanswered.

6.   After a troubled night, Walker wakes to a ringing telephone.

7.   But Blum can barely hold a conversation because of the ringing telephone.

8.   Early experiments with audience involvement included pre-show pranks like an on-stage ringing telephone.

9.   Nelson awoke that morning to the sound of a ringing telephone.

10.   Offices once made maddening by ringing telephones are silent.