She could hear the clock ticking in the living room.

He felt a huge clock was ticking in his head.

Some last only a day, and the clock is ticking.

They had much to cover, and the clock was ticking.

Just seven of the groups remain, and the clock is ticking.

"The clock is ticking between now and the year 2000."

"The clock will be ticking before many of these services are available," she said.

But the clock was ticking; the fire might have already been out of control.

The coach had already sent in the last play, the clock was ticking.

So still it was, he might hear the clock ticking in the hall below.

All he could think about now was the clock ticking, and his father waiting.

I suppose I'm the only one refreshing my page to the sound of the clock ticking.

"When you don't hear a biological clock ticking, your life choices are very different."

And I seem to hear the sound of a clock ticking.

Until the room opens, you cannot start the clock ticking.

Yet, with the clock ticking, not a single politician is talking about this issue.

Except for the great wooden clock ticking, there is no more silent place in the world.

"It gives you a sense of things that, with the clock ticking, this is what they were talking about," an American official said.

The silence was absolute, without so much as a clock ticking.

And all the while, one could hear the clock ticking.