lay before

Despite the possibly insurmountable challenge that lay before them, Bernstein and company forged ahead.

I pray for him every day—for his ministry, his safety, and the daunting tasks that lay before him.

When I told her about the farce that lay before her, she rubbed her eyes, clearly under the BBB opiate haze.

A long night lay before them, and they waited anxiously to see what would happen next.

Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord.

From that hour dated a new and sterner conception of the task that lay before him and every other Briton in the country.

That done, Garnache left Rabecque on guard, and proceeded to make the necessary arrangements for the journey that lay before them.

The Assistant Commissioner, hand pressed to brow, began to study a document which lay before him.

In support of so extraordinary a fact, I shall lay before my Reader a great number of instances.

The ray of light seemed swallowed by the gloom of the vast, lonely room that lay before him.