"The Americans should take seriously what is going on," "The whole situation is deteriorating.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

I can take care of myself." "I don't think so. Matt could have seriously cut you up last night."

VOA: special.2010.01.20

Some parents take their children's birthday parties very seriously, even when the child is too young to fully understand the celebration.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

Everyone pretended to take the event very seriously, which made it even funnier.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

He is African American and gay, and he says that at first, he did not take the nomination too seriously.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour said the Palestinian authorities take very seriously the allegations in the Goldstone report regarding possible violations by Hamas.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

But sometimes I would say, the government does not take security seriously enough unless it happens.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

You'd walk up the first day, see your mates wearing a dress, have a couple of laughs and then go and take it seriously so an audience doesn't have to."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

"What EU NAVFOR would like to see, and probably other commanders in the area, would be for all regional players now to take this threat seriously and all regional players in the area to join us in fighting this scourge, this criminal activity."

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

"When the request came through for us to consider re-forming to play, we felt that the immense scale of what had happened in Victoria and the really necessary kind of giving from other quarters to help people meant that it was something we should take very,very seriously,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.14