11.   She stepped towards the door and in that very same instant, the doorbell rang.

12.   Nancy was lacing her shoe up when the doorbell rang.

13.   I had no sooner got back to the kitchen than the doorbell rang loud enough to wake the dead.

14.   Then, at that identical hour, as on Valentines Day before, the doorbell rang and there were red roses sitting by her door.

15.   The doorbell rang and he was caught between changes, opening the door with just a towel wrapped around him.

16.   The doorbell rang at midnight.

17.   I was on the communal house phone, which is chained to the wall tighter than a medieval Bible, when the doorbell rang.

18.   The doorbell rang, shaking me from my reverie.

19.   He was thinking about that when the doorbell rang and he admitted Captain Jack Carter.

20.   Fifteen minutes afterwards, the doorbell rang.