Example sentences of "be laughing at [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's some worry about something — either he 's not going to be able to do the work , someone 's going to laugh or has been laughing at him , he does n't think the teacher 's going to understand , and it 's generally a terrible problem first thing in the morning to get him to get ready and get to school . |
| 2 | Sculptures and dolls and statues and bells and odd buildings , and sometimes Hosanna 's there and it 's nearly all right but these things are laughing at me , never with me . |
| 3 | They 're laughing at me , but really they 're afraid . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 're laughing at me . ’ |
| 5 | they 're laughing at me ! |
| 6 | ‘ You 're laughing at me . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're laughing at me and I laughed at myself , but he 's the best astrologer in London . |
| 8 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said , ‘ but I think you 're laughing at me . ’ |
| 9 | Q : When you say that I think you 're laughing at me . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're laughing at me ! |
| 11 | No we 're laugh , not laughing at her being deaf , we 're laughing at her , the robbery . |
| 12 | They 're laughing at you . |
| 13 | They 're laughing at you . |
| 14 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll definitely keep you in mind , ’ he said and as his dark eyes met hers he seemed again to be laughing at her . |
| 16 | He raised his head and smiled to her again in a curious way , his eyes seeming to be laughing at her . |
| 17 | He sent her a glare that was full of suspicion , then demanded abruptly , ‘ You would n't be laughing at me by any chance ? |
| 18 | Everyone in Rosington seemed to be laughing at him behind his back . |
| 19 | And do n't you be laughing at him , our Nell . |
| 20 | A few men at the bar were watching him and seemed to be laughing at him . |
| 21 | ‘ No one will be laughing at you ! ’ |
| 22 | Er but in order to stretch out our hands , in order to turn the tap on er sometimes that takes courage er because s people might be laughing at us . |
| 23 | Would n't she always feel a fool , knowing they were laughing at her and her Irish ways . |
| 24 | She saw that Jennifer and Vanessa were laughing at her and something inside her stirred . |
| 25 | The eyes on her back were laughing at her , judging her . |
| 26 | Yeah and and the other thing which I , actually I 've been laughing at here is because you were laughing at yourself when you were asking the questions . |
| 27 | I , I think erm I think it may have been that er you , they assumed you 're lacking confidence because you were laughing at yourself so much when you were asking the questions . |
| 28 | This often happened when he thought that one or all of us were laughing at him , especially if he interpreted our teasing as mocking his intelligence . |
| 29 | Hugh was aware that the sailors lining the rail of the ship were laughing at him . |
| 30 | ‘ Part of him would be very pleased that you were laughing at him . |