Example sentences of "laugh at [pos pn] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Federman has explained this characteristic as ‘ imagination mocking what it pretends to be doing … imagination laughing at its own pretensions ’ ( Federman 1976a : 576 ) . |
| 2 | The morning after that first night they bathed together , laughing at their own bodies and the world . |
| 3 | Then , falling into each other 's arms , they tumbled about laughing at their own precocious English . |
| 4 | He doubled up laughing at his own joke . |
| 5 | this joke is not about laughing at your own jokes |
| 6 | Laughing at your own silly mistakes can help to take away any embarrassment and the need to apologise constantly for your gaucheness without any loss of dignity or selfrespect . |
| 7 | he 's suffering , it 's bad about laughing at your own jokes that , you do n't do that . |
| 8 | She laughed at her own joke . |
| 9 | She laughed at her own image . |
| 10 | Claudia laughed at her own fears ; she was quite safe with Roman — from the sea , anyway . |
| 11 | She laughed at her own silliness . |
| 12 | He laughed at his own naïvety , his gullibility . |
| 13 | He laughed at his own joke . |
| 14 | He laughed at his own wit . |
| 15 | It had been a fanciful idea , flying out of there , and he laughed at his own foolishness . |
| 16 | He laughed at his own pleasantry . |
| 17 | He laughed at his own joke . |
| 18 | He laughed at his own joke . |
| 19 | But then she also spends some time persuading the audience to laugh at her own idiosyncrasies and rather portly shape . |
| 20 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 21 | It struck me at the time that there was something rather apt about such a pedestrian people developing such a pedestrian means of covert assassination — ’ He broke off to laugh at his own pun . |
| 22 | The farcical element throughout was dateless , showing how the Victorians could laugh at their own conventions . |
| 23 | But the same pursed smile and mischievous sideways glance , as if she really must not laugh at her own jokes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ? ’ |