Example sentences of "laughed at " in BNC.

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1 I laughed at that .
2 I laughed at that .
3 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 .
4 My blonde self laughed at the people of my village .
5 The first Americans she observed were on the boat and she wrote , ‘ they laughed at the poor immigrants lying on the deck in their wretched clothes … without the least sign of sympathy . ’
6 Then she laughed at herself , with an edge of self-mocking irony .
7 But Margaret laughed at him , and when she heard about a new God who sacrificed only himself , and gave bread and sweet wine to the people , she became a Christian .
8 All magicians can be tested by laughter because corruption can not stand mockery ; and when his daughter laughed at him he drove her out into the wilderness , and she lived in the wilderness with the wild beasts and angels ministered to her .
9 He wanted to marry her , but she laughed at him too , and said she had already made her choices and they did not include giving up her God and replacing him with a somewhat vulgar and certainly brutal man .
10 Helgi , the guide , laughed at them .
11 It was very , very sad , thought I , as the army conscript across the road laughed at the prostitution of his country 's future .
12 She laughed at him , the pretty mouth opening to reveal small , even teeth .
13 She laughed at him and said gravely that she would be happy to indulge him , and he went away , grinning .
14 Apparently he had been devising procedural systems for years , but nobody used them and everybody laughed at him .
15 She laughed at herself : ‘ You 've got Simon on the brain , you have . ’
16 Eleanor Thorne laughed at her young self .
17 Roirbak laughed at the absurdity of the image .
18 Many of the French laughed at such antics , or felt disgusted at being allied with so ‘ primitive ’ a people .
19 Though she laughed at the story and denied it completely , reporter Williams claimed to have a hypnotist 's receipt signed by Kylie .
20 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 .
21 He tried to slap Jeane Russell with his left hand , but she backed out of the way and just laughed at him .
22 Once , well after her marriage to his father was over , he had even asked her , but she just laughed at him .
23 Natasha laughed at Maggie 's bewildered expression .
24 She laughed at that expression which she had n't heard in years .
25 It gives me some satisfaction that those who laughed at me and poked fun at me now have evidence in front of their very eyes .
26 They laughed at the same things .
27 Nobody , however , laughed at Morrissey 's pretensions .
28 Oh how we laughed at Nick Kent , who may well be the greatest rock journalist who ever lived , but he epitomised every cliché in the ‘ Oh yeah man , we was stoned ’ book .
29 He laughed at his own naïvety , his gullibility .
30 He laughed at me for missing out on perfect Pipe the day before .
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