Example sentences of "laugh at [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People had actually laughed at her for asking for a chemistry set instead of a Barbie doll or a set of Nancy Drew books . |
| 2 | Then she could dress herself — though Ember was right : the others laughed at her for wearing clothes in the burrow , even the other two or three towers , and their mockery made her retreat in teenage confusion when she walked shyly into the crowded common-room . |
| 3 | And they laughed at themselves for believing such an unlikely story . |
| 4 | He laughed at me for missing out on perfect Pipe the day before . |
| 5 | This young London , happy tonight to be among its own kind , sometimes dangled a polythene bottle of cider by the neck , laughed at itself for acting crazy on the dancefloor , and now and again tried to look thick , or stoned . |
| 6 | I had to laugh at myself for thinking rather longingly now that I should miss it this year , and especially I would miss Addy , whom I loved . |
| 7 | " Your anthropologists laugh at us for saying we came from the stars . |
| 8 | ‘ Everybody in Avonlea will laugh at me for putting medicine in a cake ! ’ |
| 9 | But not half as many as will laugh at you for writing such a loathsome , snivelling letter to the NME . |