Example sentences of "[verb] fun at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the first issue appearing after I poked fun at The Guardian for spelling septic as ‘ sceptic ’ had an article that spelt aseptic as ‘ asceptic ’ . |
| 2 | In those early days Layton had much in common with Dudek , not least their ability to poke fun at the richer districts of Montreal Jewry — including Westmount , which greatly irritated Leonard . |
| 3 | The idea evolved when producer Ned Sherrin was looking for a sequel to That Was the Week That Was , the irreverent series that dared to poke fun at the Establishment and made stars of David Frost , Roy Kinnear , William Rushton , Eleanor Bron and Millicent Martin . |
| 4 | In the third chapter of his second letter , the apostle Peter predicted that a time will come when people will poke fun at the ‘ blessed hope ’ of every true believer , the promised and eagerly awaited personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 5 | But dreams are playful , and love to tease and poke fun at the truth … |
| 6 | Marcos loyalists now poke fun at the Aquino administration 's boast that it has built a new stability , arguing it is pretty fragile if it wo n't allow a dead man home for burial . |
| 7 | Again and again these feminist lexicographers refuse and indeed poke fun at the authoritative pronouncements of mainstream lexicography . |
| 8 | With the French and the Dutch it 's the Belgians , in America it 's the Poles , and in Norway they poke fun at the Lapps ! |
| 9 | THE Princess of Wales has obtained a copy of the video version of Pallas 2 , the spoof soap opera which pokes fun at the Royal Family and which will be shown next week on Channel 4 . |
| 10 | Niall , in camp costume of red PVC hotpants and outrageous leopardskin tights , is a fully paid-up member of the Fred Fairbrass school of posturing : he simpers , minces , points and pokes fun at the audience . |
| 11 | He pokes fun at the modern person who says : |
| 12 | It is true that the taste for the Picturesque which had developed at the end of the eighteenth century had led the educated to take a visual pleasure in the exteriors of vernacular buildings ( Jane Austen pokes fun at the taste on more than one occasion ) . |
| 13 | It is not unknown for practical jokers — among both dabblers and serious occultists — to have fun at the expense of others . |
| 14 | Her last film ‘ RATTLE OF A SIMPLE MAN ’ ( 1964 ) whose commercial and critical failure ended her career , can be seen as a woman 's reply to the eulogies of the working class male celebrated by John Osbourne and his like , and it does so by poking fun at the ideology of the male and his crude sexism . |
| 15 | A SPITTING Image scene poking fun at the Royal Family has been removed from a store window at the Queen 's request . |
| 16 | When faced with proposals which offer ‘ a reorientation of communications cutting across traditional routes and boundaries ’ , which in English means building roads over people 's houses , and that routes for these roads are represented by a squiggle from a felt tip pen , which then is incorporated as the project logo , we must begin to wonder if the DED and DOE are poking fun at the communities likely to suffer . |
| 17 | Pont 's cartoons were in the Punch tradition of George du Maurier [ q.v. ] and Frank Reynolds , poking fun at the middle classes . |
| 18 | It can be , sort of , for festive purposes , you 're just poking fun at the priest or something |
| 19 | Have fun at the supermarket . ’ |
| 20 | Join in to help raise funds and have fun at the same time . |