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

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