This was not to be a matter of laying an ambush.
I was beginning to fear some enemy had laid an ambush for you.
There's no point in laying an ambush if you're going to spring it too soon.
But I didn't expect them to be laying an ambush in the inventory bay.
They knew we were coming and laid a well prepared ambush.
They had almost surprised him two days before, laying an ambush in a narrow pass.
Instead of fleeing, they'd laid an ambush and she'd walked right into it.
In response to this information, the submarine laid an ambush on 9 April.
After that there was nothing, and his fellows, who might have planned to lay an ambush, let us be.
He cannot spare any to lay ambushes in the hills.