Example sentences of "[vb mod] not laugh at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the same pursed smile and mischievous sideways glance , as if she really must not laugh at her own jokes . |
| 2 | ‘ Mrs Hampton , you really must not laugh at these dark mysteries . |
| 3 | I like to have a laugh and that , but there 's some things you should n't laugh at . |
| 4 | There was one incident however that , even with hindsight , she could not laugh at . |
| 5 | But Changez looked so alone — and close up I could see bits of bristle sticking out of his badly shaved face — that even I could n't laugh at him in my usual way . |
| 6 | ‘ I do wish you would not laugh at me , Isabel . |
| 7 | He did not talk like this with anyone else , but his father would not laugh at talk of the Holy-Place-From-Over-the-Great-Water or the Yellowlegs Who Has Lost Much . |
| 8 | Luckily Herbert would not laugh at him . |
| 9 | The Ex-Wives returns to the comic vein of some of her earlier writing : ‘ I wanted to entertain myself , I lay on the floor on my stomach , scribbling away and laughing — well , if I ca n't laugh at my own jokes , who else can ? ’ |
| 10 | Well , it 's a sad thing if you ca n't laugh at yourself is n't it , eh ? |
| 11 | No , even the hyenas wo n't laugh at these and anyone who has to put up with you telling these gags is likely to let you take a closer look at the lion 's cage — like from the inside . |
| 12 | Paradise Lost is taken by most at the level of the author 's presentation and unless one looks very deeply and sceptically at Satan or one is a Christian like Lewis or a Puritan like Milton one can not laugh at him for being a fool . |
| 13 | Barrister and writer Nemone Lethbridge , not a fan herself , wrote in TV Times , ‘ I can not laugh at this massive dose of humiliation and embarrassment . |