"It was the intention to melt them down but they were exchanged for our medieval bells and hung in the tower wheee they rang for about 100 years, but were taken down in 1964, " he said.

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My bank manager rang me up and asked me if I was sitting down.

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When the closing bell mercifully rang on Friday , the Dow Jones industrial average was down 246.79 points, to close a 12, 606.30.

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Eventually, a police officer rang her doorbell and told her over the intercom to come down and identify her boy.

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Miss O'Hara said Ms Halstead rang her from Europe in 1990 to say Mr Sweeney had "tracked her down and was stalking her".

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Then the number rang again, and then a third time, before Schenk finally put his things down and answered the phone.

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The phone rang at home the other day, and when I picked it up a voice down a crackly line asked if a "Mr Sellan" was there.

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He slowed down on Rose Lane, found the house number, which he had memorized, and rang the bell.

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