Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [vb infin] laugh at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gregory may have laughed at Chilperic 's attempts at apeing the culture of the Roman past , and despised him for them , but circuses were integral to the political culture of the later Roman Empire , and its Byzantine successor : the hippodrome was central to the court ritual of Constantinople . |
| 2 | In a happier moment , Maria might have laughed at the idea of Florian troubling to rescue anyone from anything . |
| 3 | Alice saw that Roberta would have laughed at this , had Faye 's mood permitted it . |
| 4 | His joy on becoming a father was so manifest that if she had not been feeling so depressed , Celia might have laughed at him . |
| 5 | Lazarus Cohen would have laughed at that ; Butler simply vented his spleen ‘ psalmically ’ , whose chorus was , starkly , ‘ O God ! |