I was so scared, I about fainted.

He took her hand in a firm clasp.

Once a bitext is available, it can be converted into a traditional translation memory, which usually involves eliminating duplicate translation units, some degree of normalization of the segments, and combining unordered sets of translation units from a number of source and target texts into an indexed database.

And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.