Example sentences of "[noun sg] to laugh at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melissa felt a wild desire to laugh at the thought of herself , a sane Englishwoman in her forties , playing a sort of eighteenth-century game of cops and robbers with a simple-minded Frenchman suffering from delusions . |
| 2 | He controlled the urge to laugh at the tinge of regret which had coloured Artai 's tone . |
| 3 | The ridicule to which the dupes are condemned may be explicitly orchestrated by the author , by providing characters within the text to laugh at the victim . |
| 4 | She had rejoiced at her childlessness , and even found the heart to laugh at the lamentable end of her father 's fond dynastic ambitions . |
| 5 | It is a curiously uncontrolled , self-revealing laugh , for a man of Freddie Vigar 's background to laugh at a man of Howard 's . |
| 6 | Again , Palin 's natural humour and ability to laugh at a situation is never far away , but I ca n't shake the feeling that we 've seen it all before somewhere . |
| 7 | I tell you , she actually laughs at me — ; breaking off from this inquisition to laugh at the thought of me being a pacifist . |