The group of the aged are close companions, and many of ______ have known each other for decades.
_____improve her English, Jenny bought a lot of tapes for herself.
They became good friends during the war, and since then their lifelong friendship has______ tests of life and death.
I am tired _____ the partner I have been working with; he is too hard a person______.
The village is ______what it looked like when they settled their homes there 20 years ago.
The heavy rain made his business _______ a great loss.