None of the students, it seems, took the threat seriously.

These men, however, were taking the threat very seriously indeed.

"Why does it take the threat of a crisis to get this done?"

But all used almost the same words, saying they took the threat seriously.

But there were those who didn't take the threat seriously.

Yet would he control his lust or take the threat as a challenge?

Almost no one takes the threat of a strike very seriously.

She was the only one who took the threat of this marriage seriously.

But he said the Pentagon would take the threat seriously.

We don't know what the Guild position was, but they didn't take the threat seriously enough.