Collocations for ambush - noun

lay, prepare, set up
The soldiers set up an ambush on the road.

lie in, wait in
The soldiers lay in ambush for the enemy troops.

carry out, stage
They staged an ambush on an army patrol.

be caught in, run into, walk into
We ran into an ambush in the valley.

take place

in an/the ~
Twelve menwere killed in the ambush.

~ on
an ambush on an army patrol