Example sentences of "and laugh at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She still woke often in the night full of strange forebodings , but with the Reverend Baron to confide in and laugh at her wilder interpretations of what she had dreamed , she survived better . |
| 2 | She scoured the streets in the poorer areas looking for likely candidates and then , knowing the reality of poverty , taught them the rules of hygiene in her own way , which the Girls would imitate and laugh at behind her back . |
| 3 | They 'd stand there and laugh at you , or say things to get you going , and when they felt they 'd wound you up they 'd walk away laughing . |
| 4 | According to his pupil , Norman Swindin [ q.v. ] , he was inclined to be irascible at times but had a dry sense of humour and the ability to recognize and laugh at his own mistakes . |
| 5 | Just as " every clerk 's " unanimity of opinion directs the laughter of " " every wight " " at the end of the Miller 's Tale ( 3847 – 9 ) , the text of the Reeve 's Tale brings its readers to view and laugh at the miller and his family through the clerks ' perceptions , their attitudes and their frame of reference : We may particularly note , for instance , how the incongruous " " par compaignye " " that Nicholas and Alison put in the mouth of the unfortunate John recurs in this urbane rendering of the family 's vulgar cacophany , and how the somewhat different " " melodye " " recalls the " " revel " " and the " " melodye " " that Alison and Nicholas enjoy . |
| 6 | He looks and laughs at a' that . |
| 7 | When Midshipman Jack Rogers , trying to identify a distant ship , hopes it may be a Frenchman and declares ‘ the French will never like the English till they have taught us to eat frogs , and have thrashed us on a second field of Waterloo , and I hope that time may never come ’ , his friend Alick Murray defends French courage in war and laughs at Jack 's belligerence . |
| 8 | He sits on a very smoky-looking cloud and he laughs and laughs at the sight of copulation . |
| 9 | Eventually she 'll learn that you are powerless and laughs at the smacks |
| 10 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 11 | THE Princess of Wales arrived smiling and laughing at a Christmas concert last night . |
| 12 | Everybody reacted as one , condemning this nonsense and laughing at the bare-faced cheek of it . |
| 13 | The new Lady Deverill was the centre of a group by the fireplace , smoking her habitual cigarette and laughing at something a handsome man by her side was saying . |
| 14 | She joined in Nick 's songs and was as silly as he was , bright-eyed and laughing at nothing . |
| 15 | He was crying and laughing at the same time . |
| 16 | In the picture Stuart held , his father was grinning self-consciously in his formal dress , at least a head taller than his wife who hung on his arm , looking up and laughing at her husband . |
| 17 | For here his father was , sitting down beside him , hugging and kissing him , taking his hand again and laughing at the silly terrors his little game had aroused in his son . |
| 18 | It 's claimed the boy carried out the first attack behind a row of shops , holding his victim to stop her struggling , and laughing at her cries for help . |
| 19 | on his face and he 's going oh I 've got , he says I ca n't he 's going no no my face is stinging and he goes my face hurts , his face was red like , he goes it hurts , it 's stinging and he 's rubbing and everything and he goes oh it hurts , it hurts and laughing at him . |
| 20 | She with , it 's true , Janey 's help , cooked , served , washed up , cleaned , drove us here , there and everywhere , the doctor , school , the dentist , up to London for nerve-racking bouts of clothes shopping , she had the Nigels to stay , and laughed at the J ills at the garage and I 'd 've died if she 'd found out about Paul . |
| 21 | He was aware of the controversial scene which had to be cut from the trailer and laughed at the problems it caused in the UK . |
| 22 | Palmerston , making his first public utterance on the design of the new Foreign Office , then attacked the Government with what Manners later called ‘ a dashing rattling sort of speech , which the House cheered and laughed at ’ . |
| 23 | The girls sat down on a large pew-looking bench in the alcove and laughed at Billy who was standing with his back to the blazing logs doing his knee bending policeman act . |
| 24 | ‘ We knew you were coming , ’ he added for effect , and laughed at Ranulf 's gaping face . |
| 25 | And we cheered and laughed at its chequered progress — and picked it up again and again because it was still too weak to get up alone . |
| 26 | If Anwar now perhaps had reason for entertaining minor reservations about Changez ( though Changez seemed delighted by Anwar , and laughed at everything he said even when it was serious ) , this could be nothing compared to Jamila 's antipathy . |
| 27 | No more people left out and laughed at for being different . |
| 28 | How extraordinary it seemed that he and Rufus had stood in front of that picture and laughed at it ! |
| 29 | They were walking round the house speculating as to what they should sell and had paused here in this far from gloomy room , this warm , sunny , charming room , and laughed at that gloomy picture , at its sentimental naivety . |
| 30 | While I was looking through them , the woman , who was a friendly , cosy old body , noticed my bare hand and laughed at herself . |