Converse of object

• send: The question now is whether the colonists sent by the Persians pushed out the people who had settled there in the meantime.

• lead: The ill discipline of these earlier colonists led to the sterner rule imposed by Ezra on a new band of settlers.

• bring: An alien spacecraft is heading for Earth and will arrive within weeks, bringing colonists who offer partnership and prosperity.

• leave: There was an outflow of hard currency, leaving the colonists with no medium of exchange.

• have: We have here colonists of whom they are suspicious.

• settle: The colonists already settled in the territory of Mutina, suddenly attacked, took refuge in the town.

Converse of subject

• found: America is a country founded by colonists many of whom came from Britain in the early years.

• settle: The island was settled by French colonists, who brought with them slaves to work the land, in 1776.

• write: Third, my evidence was based upon letters written by German colonists in Russia, appealing for help to their compatriots in Germany.

• build: The date and the ' long house ' style of building led archeologists to believe it was built by Anglo-Scandinavian colonists.

Adjective modifier

• Persian: The Persian colonists in the fifth century being the obvious contenders.

• Dutch: A very bitter feeling was thus created among the Dutch colonists.

• Spanish: In the following centuries the Spanish colonists reduced the vicuna from more than a million to just a few thousand.

• American: He was a bitter opponent of the American colonists.

• Greek: Early colonization: how do the Greek colonists react to their new environment?

• English: He traveled to the Americas to rescue the first English colonists.

Noun used with modifier

• century: Graffiti on the walls form a link to 19th century Welsh colonists of South America.

• Viking: Secondly, Viking colonists who settled in north-western France created an independent duchy of the Northmen, or Normandy, as it became known.

Possessives

• life: But what counted most in the colonists ' day-to-day lives were the relationships within which they lived with one another.

Preposition: in

• century: The Persian colonists in the fifth century being the obvious contenders.