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They were not to be taken lightly, he told himself.
From a boy I had known how to fall lightly.
I put my hand lightly on the back of her head.
He who was with her got lightly to his feet.
From what they're saying on the news, we should be hit lightly.
She was a woman who did not lightly do either.
The old man was being kind, trying to let him down lightly.
They did not take them lightly in the first half.
We do not take the service you have done us lightly.
He knew she could not have done such a thing lightly.
She turned to him and put her small hand lightly on top of his.
On the other hand, she was far too gone to bring anything off very lightly.
I got away lightly and came home with only four.
Iraq will be seen to have got away lightly in a few years time.
He was not a man to take such a thing lightly.
He knew she was not a woman to give her heart so lightly.
Still, death was never a thing to be taken lightly.
Those things were not to be taken lightly, especially in view of what she'd just seen.
No one should take the process of making people into patients lightly.
He reported back to his team not to take us too lightly.
The others, to his way of thinking, got away more lightly.
I'm just saying that human life should not be taken lightly.
Lightly on the hand, first, the one that was close before him.
He put his word to nothing lightly, that was clear.
They step lightly, although one of them is a large man.