1.  We take the little things serious, and the big ones as a joke.

2.  Your clever words are very amusing, of course, but you laugh at serious things.

3.  One lick led to another, in her experience, and that was not the idea this afternoon, there were serious things in train.

4.  John suddenly realised how serious things were.

5.  The two men, according to Arthur Schlesinger, found the same things funny and the same things serious despite the generation gap.

6.  And I get to tell serious things, too.

7.  And without that much technology, the human species will have far more serious things to worry about that what its forebears buried deep under a mountain in Nevada.

8.  A pin count, I believe, is the most serious thing people on vacation should worry about.

9.  But always, they seem to have enough sense to take things deadly serious when the whistle blows.

10.  But there are serious things to say about her ordeal.