Example sentences of "do a [adj] trade " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it 's it 's quite common , everybody does it if you have a vic if you study Victorians anyone who a Victorian and they all they did all done out , chairs er table space at the front , they did drill in the playground they played with tops and hoops in the playground , all the children the m parents hired costumes from Fairy Godmothers Fairy Godmother 's done a roaring trade especially |
| 2 | Although there was never a great deal of action , at one time the firm must have done a fair trade as old Mr. Talbot was reputed to be a very wealthy man . |
| 3 | Ah the ramblers must do a roaring trade . |
| 4 | Famous courtesans used to do a roaring trade in handkerchiefs scented with their secretions . |
| 5 | And it used to be , it killed off a good part of our business this year , we used to do a roaring trade in back-dated diaries with accountancy lawyers , and it 's all gone . |
| 6 | and then Rochdale up towards Blackpool and we 're stuck right in the bloody middle so the er , they were a , like we were one delivery that 's all it , and we were n't that big an account , you know even doing a reasonable trade you 're not |
| 7 | Miss J. has pretty well run him and now he 's doing a roaring trade and has just married a daughter of Lord Lytton , he 's evidently right in with the right lot of people … and what a God 's mercy that for once in a way these people have got hold of the right man and what a thing for England . ’ |
| 8 | At the fair itself there were country crafts and country foods , with the stallholders doing a roaring trade . |
| 9 | At 7.30 in the evening , the local inn , the Chequers , was doing a roaring trade . |
| 10 | Supermarkets and stores which open on the seventh day are doing a roaring trade . |
| 11 | Long queues were waiting for opening time at the Regent Street store in London , with the company 's Brighton , Exeter and Cheltenham stores also doing a roaring trade . |
| 12 | The pubs were doing a roaring trade , what with this newfound prosperity and the constant flow of soldiers on leave with money to spend and precious little time to get rid of it . |
| 13 | A FARMER is doing a roaring trade — selling turkey chicks for Christmas . |
| 14 | To one side , a Sikh was doing a roaring trade in posters of Saddam Hussein . |
| 15 | The food-sellers were doing a roaring trade in spiced sausages and , beside them , water-sellers with great buckets slung round their necks sold cooling drinks to soothe the mouths of those who chewed the hot , spicy meat . |
| 16 | Motorbikes from Bejing are being imported into Britain by an engineer , and by all accounts he 's doing a roaring trade . |
| 17 | Some retailers have been doing a brisk trade in the new toys , others apparently have not . |
| 18 | They have , it seems , been doing a brisk trade . |
| 19 | Top Shop is doing a brisk trade in reefer jackets and A-line car coats . |
| 20 | Men in shirtsleeves and women in summer dresses were strolling around the airport and ice-cream vendors were doing a brisk trade . |
| 21 | The public bar was already doing a brisk trade . |
| 22 | Hotels and stores are doing a brisk trade in vampire kits . |
| 23 | Yet somehow the galleries were open again and doing a brisk trade , and publishers could not remember when they had sold so many books . |
| 24 | The burger bar is doing a sizzling trade and Pacitto 's , dear old Pacitto 's the best ice cream you can buy for my money has a queue that stretches halfway back to Middlesbrough . |
| 25 | The tavern also did a thriving trade in the sale of stolen horses , an activity that provided Harper with an excuse to travel deep into the Irish countryside . |
| 26 | It was not large but did a fairish trade . |
| 27 | The home selectors had been ridiculed in the press for the squad they chose , and it hardly seemed a match for the mighty West Indies ; yet by steady bowling and sound batting , England won all three games convincingly , and chemists did a good trade in indigestion tablets as much humble pie had to be eaten . |
| 28 | And she always gave them good measure and did an awful trade . |
| 29 | In blissful oblivion , I 'm sure , JTR boarded the St Clair , ‘ a Glasgow trader , that calls at many ports with merchandise and does a lively trade in the transport of cattle . ’ |