1.   But two days into the vacation the phone started ringing and he started covering pages of his little yellow notepad.

2.   The phone started ringing again as soon as I went back upstairs.

3.   The phone stopped and the clock ticked and the phone started a third time.

4.   The phone started to ring.

5.   Within hours of the announcement of a one per cent reduction in interest rates, the phones started ringing more frequently at Andrews Estate Agency in Gloucester.

6.   And suddenly his phone would start ringing.

7.   And then the phone started to ring.

8.   And then the phone started ringing.

9.   But later, when he gets home, his phone starts to ring.

10.   But phones started ringing again by June, agency executives said.