Example sentences of "do a roaring 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 | Ah the ramblers must do a roaring trade . |
| 3 | Famous courtesans used to do a roaring trade in handkerchiefs scented with their secretions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | At the fair itself there were country crafts and country foods , with the stallholders doing a roaring trade . |
| 7 | At 7.30 in the evening , the local inn , the Chequers , was doing a roaring trade . |
| 8 | Supermarkets and stores which open on the seventh day are doing a roaring trade . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A FARMER is doing a roaring trade — selling turkey chicks for Christmas . |
| 12 | To one side , a Sikh was doing a roaring trade in posters of Saddam Hussein . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Motorbikes from Bejing are being imported into Britain by an engineer , and by all accounts he 's doing a roaring trade . |