This paper reports the rationale of a lexicographic project, which aims to implement a theoretically and empirically motivated methodology for compiling a bilingual lexical database by studying 10 polysemous English verbs of motion and their prima facie equivalents in Greek. Attention is focused on the 2 template entries created to ensure comprehensive coverage of the lexical units of the verbs and maintain consistency throughout the database. Parts of the database entries are selected to exemplify (a) the systematic treatment of polysemy and phraseology, and (b) the unified way of comparing distributions of semantic concepts among different lexical units.