Sentence examples for grandfather set from inspiring English sources

Mr. Babu's grandfather set up Modern Hairdressers in the downtown hotspot Brigade Road several decades ago.

One soldier described him as being "like your grandfather, set in his ways".

"They cannot let go," complains Paola Carniglia, an executive of OTIM, a freight forwarder her grandfather set up in 1948.

His grandfather set up a firm producing weed killer for railway tracks, the origin of the family fortunes.

His grandfather set up a corner drugstore where his father worked; the young Bernanke waited tables to pay his way through Harvard.

Walker's grandfather set up the Studfold campsite 50 years ago and the surrounding farm land has been in the family for around 400 years.

His great-grandfather set up a general store in Mantilla, and the family never left.

Around the time of Central Otago's goldrush, his great-grandfather set up a company importing wines and spirits into New Zealand.

For him, it's a painful low point in his family's 111-year journey in American oil, one that started when his great-grandfather set up a series of storage tanks in the plains outside of Tulsa.

I proclaimed myself a closet Freudoid, a devotee of the revolutionary thinker, and announced my determination to visit Vienna -- where her great-grandfather set up shop more than a century ago -- and London, his last home before immortality.

His grandfather had set up the store as a general grocery in the 1920s.