Example sentences of "[vb past] laughed at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down in the hold he 'd cracked his shins on the bumper of a small green car and she 'd laughed at his face and kissed him as if he 'd been a kid and for a moment he was thirteen and being hugged by Dave 's big sister , who was certainly large and confusing to thirteen year olds . |
| 2 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 3 | He 'd laughed at her , teased her , and succeeded in keeping her at a distance . |
| 4 | She 'd laughed at that and resisted the urge to cuddle him in front of one of ‘ the lads ’ and had gone . |
| 5 | She was about to tell him to be careful , but then she remembered how he had laughed at the idea that Gazzer could be dangerous , so she kept her mouth shut . |
| 6 | He could not recall when last she had laughed at him without ridicule . |
| 7 | Buddie had been very angry , but everyone else had laughed at Frankie and called him a snivelling cissy . |
| 8 | Kathleen had always rushed for the post , even in the days when their father had laughed at her eagerness and stood above her as she scooped up the white and brown envelopes . |
| 9 | Her mummy had once shown her photographs of herself as a Brownie many years ago , and Angela had laughed at the funny straw hat and long frock she had worn . |
| 10 | They had a conversation of sorts with the two inebriates who had laughed at Joe 's opening remarks to them . |
| 11 | He had laughed at the time , but the way his stomach was behaving now , he began to fear they had not been jesting . |
| 12 | As he poured the tea , Peter wondered if she 'd told James about how she 'd made a fool of him ; perhaps they had laughed at him together . |
| 13 | Colt had laughed at the Captain and the men around him , laughed until they took out their failure on him with the most savage beating he had ever received . |
| 14 | At Kisdon Force , Bill the dog fell in the river and , because I had laughed at him , shook himself all over me . |
| 15 | Fast motion can be used to express erotic tension and desire , if the purpose is comic rather than romantic — if we had laughed at the romantic yearnings of Cecile or even Frankie , the film would be failing , even though the treatment of these themes is throughout as much comic as tragic — ‘ bitter-sweet ’ seems to be the compound word , or better still the mot juste is ‘ douce-amère ’ . |
| 16 | She was sorry she had laughed at Thomas . |
| 17 | I heard him whispering to my master all evening , and I was sorry I had laughed at him . |
| 18 | And old geek critics had laughed at him . |
| 19 | It had n't helped that on both occasions the rest of us had laughed at Frank 's remarks . |
| 20 | I had laughed at him more than I had laughed at Ahmed . |
| 21 | I had laughed at him more than I had laughed at Ahmed . |
| 22 | The other men in the canoe had laughed at his impatience and berated him for pointing . |
| 23 | It was the other young mothers in the beds each side of her who had laughed at it . |
| 24 | Once on the promenade a boy had laughed at him . |
| 25 | He had learned that lesson as a child , when the others had laughed at him , and they sent him to see the school shrink . |
| 26 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 27 | At the time she had laughed at the observation , but was n't that what she was doing now ? |
| 28 | No wonder he had laughed at hers , she thought distractedly . |
| 29 | His style was older , smooth , charming , experienced and no-one had laughed at him yet . |
| 30 | That remark sent a flash of real irritation through her , as Ronni remembered how he had laughed at her before , mocking what he perceived to be her dull life in London . |