1.   After the phone had rung twice, Joyce picked it up and said hello.

2.   And then, as if to deliver the knockout blow to his scheme, the phone rang.

3.   As soon as the phone rang, we knew something terrible must have happened.

4.   At that exact moment, the phone rang.

5.   Charlie was taking off his shirt when the phone rang.

6.   George was having his breakfast when the phone rang.

7.   He jerked upright when the phone rang.

8.   He let the phone ring twenty times, thirty, tried the line again, let it ring forty times.

9.   He was just leaving when the phone rang.

10.   Henry was rooting about among some old biscuit tins in the pantry when the phone rang in the hall.