Relationship

have relationship

I saw Millie and Jack walking hand in hand. They must be having some of relationship.

improve relationship

Fortunately, the relationship between the police and the local community has

improved since last month’s riots.

work relationship

Let’s call it a day! I don’t think our relationship is going to work. We don’t agree on anything.

build up relationship

Our business has grown and grown because we concentrated on building up good relationships with all our clients – big and small.

break off relationship

When Jane discovered that her new friend was still in touch with his old friend, she broke off the relationship immediately.

fall apart relationship

Liz and Harry have split up. Their relationship fell apart after Harry started travelling in his work.

working relationship

Many of the staff find our new MD difficult to work with and don’t get on with him. However, I seem to have established a good working relationship with him right from the start.

close relationship

I have a very close relationship with my youngest brother. I had to look

after him when he was a boy. We still spend a great deal of time together.

love-hate relationship

I have a love-hate relationship with my job! Sometimes I find my work very interesting while at other times I just want to be somewhere else.

stable relationship

They’ve never fallen out with each other in twenty years of marriage. They obviously have a very stable relationship.

physical relationship

They see a lot of each other but their relationship is strictly platonic. They have no kind of physical relationship as far as I know.

lasting relationship

Sadly, our affair was brief. It did not develop into a lasting relationship.

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I enjoy a fairly harmonious relationship with my children. It’s always been friendly and peaceful.

I have a rather uneasy relationship with my mother-in-law. I’m not comfortable with her and I find it quite a train having her to stay with us.

I feel sorry for Marie. She’s had a string of disastrous relationships since the breakup of her marriage.

They appear to have a healthy relationship – they can talk about most things and they remain on good terms even when they disagree.

They have a stormy relationship. One minute they are looking lovingly into each other’s eyes, the next they are shouting and arguing with each other.

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strain on relationship

She’s applied for a divorce. Money problems have put a serve strain on their relationship.

nature of relationship

He deliberately misled us about the nature of their relationship, he said they were just good friends, but they’ve been having an affair for years.

breakdown of relationship

The most common cause of depression today is the breakdown of a close relationship.

questions on relationship

The local police chief dodged questions on his relationship with the local drugs mafia.

details of relationship

The Sunday papers were full of pictures of the bishop plus all the sordid details of his relationship with the actress.

 

Notes

• In ‘Let’s call it a day! I don’t think our relationship is going to work. We don’t agree on anything.’, ‘last, is also possible.

In ‘Our business has grown and grown because we concentrated on building up good relationships with all our clients – big and small.’, ‘establish’ is also possible.

• Note the question:

What’s your relationship to Bill? > He’s my nephew.

• Note the following relationship:

Trust is a key factor in the doctor-patient relationship.

• ‘In a relationship’ means to have an affair:

No, I’m not married, but I’m in a relationship right now.