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It is very effective in analyzing an English textbook to compare a corpus of English and the English textbook corpus in terms of the frequency and usage of specific expressions or structures. The goal of this paper is to analyze English textbooks in Korea through the comparison of the British English Corpus(BNC), which is based on British English, focusing on infinitives and gerunds functioning as a direct object of TRY, BEGIN, START, STOP, REMEMBER, FORGET, and REGRET. According to the analysis conducted in this paper, the BNC exhibits the avoidance of [-ing1 + -ing2] sequence, the difference in the frequency of [V1 + to V2] between TRY/BEGIN/START and STOP/REMEMBER/FORGET/REGRET and the difference in the frequency of [V + -ing] between START/STOP/BEGIN and the other verbs. In the BNC, further, when a verb is TRY, BEGIN, or FORGET, [V + Infinitive] occurs much more frequently than [V + Gerund]. In this paper, it is shown that the English textbooks investigated in this paper properly reflect these characteristics found in the analysis of the samples of the BNC.