1.   Again and again these feminist lexicographers refuse and indeed poke fun at the authoritative pronouncements of mainstream lexicography.

2.   At the moment he cheerily condemns protesters or pokes fun at the Tories.

3.   He carries on conversations with the fans, jokes with refs, and pokes fun at his own players.

4.   He spoke often of Eliot, trying from time to time to poke gentle fun at him.

5.   His plays ingeniously poked fun at the way the Communist Party corrupted language.

6.   In fact, one of his most endearing qualities was his ability to puncture his own pomposity and poke fun at himself.

7.   My friends poke fun at me by calling me a bully.

8.   Newspapers started to defy the strict censorship imposed during the coup and to poke fun at Mr Serrano.

9.   Some of the kids were poking fun at Judy because of the way she was dressed.

10.   Sorry, Clinton only switched running mates for the evening to poke fun at Republican rival George Bush.