Example sentences of "[verb] in wait for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Death or injury lies in wait for the imprudent in Brobdingnagian chasms below . |
| 2 | Dulé was to slip into the sea , then , binding the container of burning pitch to his head with a deep cushioning of reeds in between to prevent him getting burned , he would swim to the ship , gouge a hole in the hull with his knife and , taking dry tinder from a companion swimming alongside him , light spills from the fire and pass them through the walls of the ship , then slip back under the cover of the mangroves and lie in wait for the panic . |
| 3 | The rapist was already lying in wait for the twenty eight year old woman when she arrived home last night . |
| 4 | Morrison only completed some light running in the morning session at the army camp on a pitch which could have doubled as a minefield such were the undulations and mini-lagoons lying in wait for the unsuspecting . |
| 5 | Lying in wait for the industry are further pressures from environmental issues such as the level of nitrates in water and continuing EEC attempts to tackle the problem of its Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 6 | He could have laid in wait for the soldiers and split their heads and — ‘ Fight ? |
| 7 | The manor of Witton was leased to Jervaulx and one August night , so the story goes , the villagers lay in wait for the thief . |
| 8 | It was only when nine bottles disappeared in one morning that he decided to lie in wait for the thief . |
| 9 | Then the Brownies realised what terrible danger would lie in wait for the pilot of the plane if he should try to make an emergency landing on the wide , green , treeless tract of the swamp , which looked like solid ground but was n't . |
| 10 | He had then lain in wait for the man 's wife and daughter and knifed them to death as they returned from a shopping trip . |
| 11 | The prosecution say that she was plucked from the bridge by Hagans , who 'd lain in wait for the right victim and then pounced . |