1.   He learned that he missed that moment when the first bell tolls and it tolls for him.

2.   Of this no one can be sure until the final bell tolls.

3.   Regardless of what happens after the first bell tolls, that alone has brought Vecchione the grudging respect of many who once laughed at him.

4.   Saturday night he will rush out of his corner as always when the first bell tolls and try to turn a boxing match into a street brawl.

5.   A bronze bell tolls, and a flight of doves is released into the muggy August air.

6.   Both Docherty and Wiltshire had to go through the motions of getting into the ring, hear the first bell toll, and then get awarded the fight.

7.   Republicans were in a hurry to hear the bell toll for Gore.