When the phone finally rang again, it seemed as if he'd been in a holding pattern forever.

The silence went on for so long that when the phone finally rang, I jumped.

It was a few minutes after five o'clock when the doorbell finally rang.

It was close to dark before the phone finally rang.

He languished for three days, and had decided to go back home when the hotel phone finally rang.

And the next morning, right on cue, the phone finally rang.

He was working on the new angle when the phone finally rang.

We were in the car when my cellphone finally rang.

He stared at the phone for five minutes, and it finally rang.

When the last bell of the day finally rang, Cassie still hadn't made up her mind what she was going to do.