She too has a clock ticking inside her.

The subtle clock of age ticked inside him, and he didn't want to lose his skills as he grew older.

Timothy hadn't quite figured out what was ticking inside the vast adult mechanism beside him.

"When a bomb is ticking inside you, you have to keep pushing."

There was a clock ticking inside him whose spring was about to run down.

There was a time bomb ticking inside me.

A really keen listener would have heard the faint whirring and ticking inside the walls.

My brain was working by habit, just as the clock went on ticking inside the smashed E-type.

As he sat there, something began to tick inside him.

Surely there was a time bomb ticking inside Nicholas's head, readying itself to destroy him.