Sentence examples for dad's own from inspiring English sources

I asked what influence Walter's action had had on Dad's own life.

But as Dad's own understanding of America and his American children's place in it evolved, so did his approach toward teaching us.

The dad's own father had been killed by the military when he was seven and he had been attacked by them as well.

Yet the Loft Kid's judgment was more in defense of the Expressionism he associated with his dad's own commitment to oil-on-canvas than out of outrage on behalf of Edie Sedgwick or some other sacred "casualty".

Any such construction would presumably be no more or less "real" than my sketchy memories of Dad's own parents, or than the children's memories of Dad would have been had he lived until they were four or five.

There was a certificate from the War Office marking my grandfather's bravery in the first world war and underneath Dad's own national service card and some leave papers, a pack of cards and a tiny black and white picture of him and his best friend in Berlin, both in uniform bearing Brylcreemed hair and swaggery smiles.

My grandfather on my dad's side owned a sporting goods store and amassed a large gun collection that included several Walker-model Colt revolvers, the weapon the Texas Rangers used to tame the west before the Civil War, and a pistol with a provenance that included the outlaw Jesse James.

In 1985, three years after his father died, Green was named chief executive of UtiliCorp United Inc., the fancy-sounding parent company formed to own his dad's old utility, Missouri Public Service.

I realized that they probably endured a similar stew of emotions – sorrow and anger, pride and obligation – to my dad's, and my own.

My dad's got his own building business, and my mum's got a children's clothing business, so I guess I have an understanding about the way business works and that's helped.

I was familiar with every program at my summer camp before I even arrived, thanks to my dad's sharing his own Camp Massad memories with me for years prior.