adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a seriously ill/critically ill patient
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The ward was packed with seriously ill patients.
badly/seriously hurt
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Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt.
badly/severely/seriously damage
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Smoking can severely damage your health.
be badly/seriously wounded
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Her husband was seriously wounded in the attack.
be badly/seriously/critically injured
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Two people have been critically injured in an accident.
go badly/seriously wrong
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The book is a thriller about a diamond robbery that goes badly wrong.
heavily/seriously/severely polluted
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The lake is seriously polluted.
seriously ill (= very ill )
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Any seriously ill patients are usually sent to a state hospital.
seriously overestimate sth
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We seriously overestimated how much confidence he had in himself.
seriously rich (= very rich )
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They stand to become seriously rich if the venture succeeds.
seriously
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I thought seriously about my doctor’s advice.
seriously/badly/slightly etc delayed
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The flight was badly delayed because of fog.
seriously/chronically/badly etc underfunded
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Our education system is seriously underfunded.
seriously/deeply worried
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Hazel was now seriously worried. Why hadn’t he come back?
seriously/deeply/greatly etc disturbed
seriously/heavily overweight (= very overweight )
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Being seriously overweight doubles the risk of heart disease.
seriously/highly/grossly etc misleading
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These figures are highly misleading.
severely/seriously depressed (= very depressed )
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He became severely depressed after losing his job.
take sb/sth seriously/badly/personally etc
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I was joking, but he took me seriously.
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Ben took the news very badly.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ill
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Becky Blandford, who's still seriously ill more than forty eight hours after a hunting accident.
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According to press reports published here over the last few days, Assad has been seriously ill .
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Doctors say Mr Crowther is showing some improvement but he's still seriously ill .
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Mrs Ormerod fell seriously ill again only days after having been allowed home.
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Two, who were most seriously ill with vomiting and other symptoms, were released after a week.
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The Empress, who had been seriously ill , died of diabetes soon afterwards.
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This can be positively dangerous, if only because such practitioners may not recognise when a person is seriously ill .
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The sole survivor, Barry O'Shaughnessy, 19, was seriously ill in hospital last night.
wrong
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And by summer 1987 - still a year before Barlow Clowes was closed - it was obvious that something was seriously wrong .
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We would call in a specialist and try to find out if there was anything seriously wrong .
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What does matter is that something seems seriously wrong with Gaia.
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And I think I must conclude that, in spite of the well-established format, something is going seriously wrong here.
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Nothing seriously wrong , but she had been sick a lot, slept badly from indigestion, and was disappointed with herself.
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They said there'd better be something seriously wrong with me.
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It means that we're putting things right when things have gone seriously wrong .
■ VERB
affect
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People with allergies and other respiratory and heart ailments may be more seriously affected .
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Migrants from equatorial latitudes to countries with reduced light exposure are seriously affected by these climatic changes.
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This avoids the water absorption point and is not too seriously affected by scattering.
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In this example, wives are the population most seriously affected by whatever research may be done.
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Defining sufficient interest is relatively easy where one or more persons are more seriously affected by a decision than people generally.
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The leisure business continues to be once again seriously affected by the recession.
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Livestock Livestock farming has been seriously affected by the need to produce so much so quickly.
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But the Department of Transport claims the couple will not be seriously affected .
become
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He became seriously ill shortly after taking his first job in a surveyor's office.
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A family whose wage earners are without medical coverage can lose everything when a child becomes seriously ill.
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They can lose so much water from the body that they become seriously ill.
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Helpless Dear Helpless: First of all stop hitting each other before one of you becomes seriously hurt.
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At this time of year, even wrapped-up regions can become seriously dehydrated.
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Under Conservative rule civil liberty became seriously eroded.
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Its international indebtedness had reached such alarming proportions under the previous Khedive that its Western creditors had become seriously alarmed.
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On 16 June 1970 he became seriously ill and died five days later.
believe
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No-one could seriously believe that the king had been a worshipper of the cult.
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No one any longer seriously believes that Marie and Eleanor actually did preside over such tribunals.
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Do you seriously believe you can pick up with this tenth Gittel where you left off with Number One before?
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Do you seriously believe the mutt tastes what it gulps down?
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Did he seriously believe that she had set out to break up a woman's marriage?
consider
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Every computer user should seriously consider protecting their system with an uninterrupted power supply.
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He seriously considered it in 1992 and very stupidly chose not to run.
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If the patient develops early overt congestive heart failure it is contraindicated, but do seriously consider it later.
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I started seriously considering the idea.
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But the statistics would have to be extremely bad before Mr Lamont seriously considers such a move.
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East Lampeter police never seriously considered other suspects.
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I seriously considered disembowelling Ian for this, but on reflection that would be a little harsh.
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It is a matter to be seriously considered .
damage
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However, the decline in the Tokyo stock market, which has rendered many warrants worthless, may seriously damage the market.
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The quake seriously damaged computers at the U.S.
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The house was seriously damaged by fire in 1879 but rebuilt largely to the original design.
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Neither Bradley nor his school have been seriously damaged by his small act of information sharing.
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Treatment can help prevent the infection from seriously damaging the foetus.
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Police officials also said 12 patrol cars were seriously damaged in the melee.
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If that was now imposed on it, it would very seriously damage its business.
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In two days we had had forty-five ships seriously damaged in our slick battalions.
hurt
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Mosley was himself quite seriously hurt by a brick at a meeting in Liverpool in 1937.
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Unfavorable weather conditions have seriously hurt three of the last four cherry harvests.
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Fortunately Diana was not seriously hurt by the fall although she did suffer severe bruising around her stomach.
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Fortunately only one legislator was seriously hurt .
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I'd been right in thinking that he wasn't seriously hurt , and they soon had him well again.
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If both children in these examples were to become flexible caretakers, their parents would be seriously hurt .
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His nose had bled and his forehead and face were badly bruised from his fall; but he was not seriously hurt .
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It was a miracle none of us was seriously hurt .
injure
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The drivers of both vehicles were taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital for treatment but neither was seriously injured .
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And this night, he comes close to getting seriously injured .
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No one was seriously injured , but M4 Westbound was closed bringing traffic chaos.
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The other wounded person, a waitress, was not injured seriously .
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It's one of the most evil weapons that he's seen and could only kill or seriously injure .
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The following month a twenty-two-year-old black man was shot and seriously injured by a carload of white men.
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His girlfriend, Susan Wormsley, who was seriously injured in the crash is still in hospital.
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Their young son had been injured seriously in a terrible traffic accident.
look
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Instead he was standing with his head on one side, looking seriously at her.
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I also promise that the Government will look seriously at all proposals for sensible reform.
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She had looked seriously at soft-eyed young men, pierced, as often as not, by arrows.
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Basil looked seriously through my work.
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But at the moment he looked seriously discomposed, despite Natalia's presence.
take
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Differences between them are rarely taken seriously .
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Voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame is an enormous privilege, and it should be taken seriously by those involved.
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She had not taken seriously , because Robert patently hadn't, the original invitation.
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But tonics deserve to be taken seriously .
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Unfortunately, it's still the case that you have to dress down to be taken seriously .
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You can not expect to be taken seriously with a bovine's milking tackle perched on your bonce.
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The committee takes seriously the need to be fair and just in everything it does.
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Mitch's image alone does not make clear that he will be mocked rather than taken seriously as an object of desire.
think
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You don't seriously think I'd drive around knowing that my insurance was out of date?
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Golden State fans haven't thought seriously about the playoffs in years.
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No doubt we should have objected if we had ever seriously thought about action.
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Neither of them had thought seriously of fog before June 28.
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I seriously thought of crawling through the smoke to the door.
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Do any of us seriously think that Michael Parks is going to sleep well for the foreseeable future?
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Both were fined by Southampton and boss Ian Branfoot had to think seriously about playing them together.
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For your own peace of mind, she told the young woman, you should think seriously about having this baby.
threaten
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Many birds, small mammals and fish have become extinct or are seriously threatened .
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Indeed, the viability of the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been seriously threatened .
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Moktadir, who was seriously threatened by the neighbouring kingdoms of Navarre and Aragon, gladly accepted.
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Elias, has been seriously threatened , because of its provocative color.
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There are 6 agents within a mile of his shop on the Abingdon Road and another outlet would seriously threaten his business.
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With regard to the seriously threatened Engelmann oak in San Diego County, merely saving lane trees is not enough.
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Probably more so in fact, for all organisms are more seriously threatened by competition from their own species than from others.
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Not until the twentieth century did the increase in population force an uneconomic division of farms and seriously threaten Basque rural prosperity.
treat
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Had the issue been treated seriously lie ought to have been more than usually invulnerable upon it.
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All reports must be treated seriously , and confidentially and must be investigated by the employer.
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Woman vicar death threat HATE-mail threats to decapitate a leading activist for women priests are being treated seriously by police.
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Preliminary enquiries should be treated seriously and the seller's legal representatives should do their best to supply full answers.
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However, it was also claimed that feminism and gender issues were not treated seriously by the senior management.
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They have to be treated seriously , but yet not inflated, and Ramey achieves that very convincingly.
undermine
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The claims of the falsificationist are seriously undermined by the fact that observation statements are theory-dependent and fallible.
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Current levels of traffic seriously undermine the quality of life in our cities.
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This seriously undermines the capacity of national governments to set ethical boundaries for business.
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However, these studies and many others that followed were seriously undermined by some fault or other.
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They argue that this will seriously undermine the adoption of the Biosafety Protocol developed under the Convention on Biodiversity.
weaken
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The tying of aid for imports has seriously weakened the policy of standardizing equipment.
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He knows Clinton will not propose and Congress will not enact legislation to seriously weaken provisions of the new law.
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In effect the Unity Campaign was already seriously weakened .
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The effect was devastating, seriously weakening Mrs Thatcher's hold on the premiership and making a leadership contest virtually inevitable.
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Then, because of their geographical position, they were seriously weakened by the Viking onslaught down the east coast.
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Moreover his domestic position was seriously weakened by his obvious lack of success as a diplomat and a military commander.
wounded
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Dozens of others were seriously wounded or left permanently disabled.
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Her husband, Pedro Castro Tojín, was seriously wounded in the attack.
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In the shoot-out one Klansman was killed, and five others were seriously wounded .
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A dozen people were seriously wounded .
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Oh, General, I hope you are not seriously wounded .
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Mr Inaki Esnaola, another of Herri Batasuna's four deputies-elect, was seriously wounded in the attack.
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Although most of the ships had been hit, only two pilots were seriously wounded and had to be evacuated.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Seriously , though, are you going to see her again?
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Allow me to speak seriously for a moment.
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Are you seriously suggesting that she should give up her job in order to look after her husband?
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My plan is to train seriously from January to July.
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She was talking about children's social education at a time when no one else was seriously concerned with it.
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There was something seriously wrong.
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They started dating seriously about 8 months ago.
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Those who seriously attempt to kill themselves usually manage to do so.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And like all craftsmen, they were not always taken seriously by the intellectually fashionable people of their times.
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And they take every second of opportunity seriously .
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Another 1, 500 children each year are seriously injured by unlocked handguns.
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It doesn't deserve to be taken seriously .
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It was just a funny number that no one takes seriously , except the workers.
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Nationalists in Moldavia fought police and troops late yesterday and unofficial reports said dozens of people were injured, some seriously .
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She had not at first taken it seriously .
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They weren't taking it seriously .