Sentence examples for waiting to rob from inspiring English sources

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On Sunday evening, April 12 , 1987 Petitioner David Allen Sattazahn and his accomplice, Jeffrey Hammer, hid in a wooded area waiting to rob Richard Boyer, manager of the Heidelberg Family Restaurant.

Shouting over his shoulder, he said we needed to move fast, because there were often thieves along this trail waiting to rob miners of their gold.

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In geopolitical terms, Qatar is one of those small, oil-rich countries that looks like a bank waiting to be robbed by invaders or coup makers.

The Saudi royals, sitting on top of some two hundred and sixty billion barrels of oil and many tens of billions of dollars in cash and other assets, have always looked a bit like a shaky bank waiting to be robbed, if only insurgents could mount a coup or revolution.

There's a jail, stables, bank (just waiting to be robbed) and the ubiquitous saloon.

We clamber off the bus and stand at midnight on a deserted country road in the Pernambuco badlands in the rain, waiting to be either robbed or saved, drinking cheap cachaça and eating carefully rationed crackers.

As Feldmar described it to the CBC, "It's as if the whole of Vancouver was waiting to see this drug arrive and would rob the pharmacy to get it… It's like Fort Knox has been waiting for this drug".

The University Village Apple Store in Seattle was mysteriously robbed of serviced laptops and refurbished iPhones that were waiting to be restocked early Monday morning.

Waiting to eat fruits and vegetables or eating older produce means you are robbing yourself of some of the vitamins.

After waiting to make sure her attacker had gone, she called hotel security to tell them that she'd been robbed.

"If you get robbed and you make a complaint," said the head of the Chamber of Commerce, Arturo Gonzalez Cruz, "you will spend six or seven hours waiting to report it.

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