He decided to bury the treasure in the backyard.

Cut the quartered pak-choi into, slightly wide, strips.

He made up the deficit with a loan.

I am going to a concert next week.

We are concerned about the further actualization of current problems among youth, such as truancy, dislike of school and lack of appropriate character development.

I have fourteen books on my shelf.

He needs discipline.

The cat is sleeping in the bed.

He is addressed as Doctor in his laboratory.

I hope you're prepared to communicate under these conditions, because e-mail is most effective and convenient when different time zones are taken into consideration.

He knocked on the door.

Physics is my favorite subject.

She repeated what she had heard to her mother.

Tears trickled down her cheeks.

Tokyo is the capital of Japan.

The downside, well, it's how thoroughly work gets mixed up with my private life.

Each year, twenty-seven million acres of the tropical rainforests are destroyed.

The cat is sleeping inside the box.

Troublemakers rarely become model citizens.

I found this column interesting.

He enjoys playing the guitar.

I love playing football.

He can speak both Japanese and English with facility.

Adverbial time clauses (here 'when') write about the future in the present tense.

The people followed the dictator like so many sheep.

I have a preference for spicy food.

The president assembled his advisers for a conference.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

The bear ran across the field.

I want to run a Windows 95 game.