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did

American  
[did] / dɪd /

verb

  1. simple past tense of do.


did British  
/ dɪd /

verb

  1. the past tense of do 1

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Fred told BBC Essex he did not realise he was being filmed some of the time and was "surprised" when he watched it back.

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"I did a really good job just holding serve, getting through a lot of those games," said Fritz, who never faced a break point.

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"We did great work in attack and in defence... you could tell that we were defending as a team during the whole game," Valverde told Real Madrid TV.

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However, Detroit Pistons star Cade Cunningham, who will represent one of the US teams, was left yearning for the All-Star Games of his youth and felt the formula did not need to be changed.

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But it did not move to crush the industry as Beijing did, instead opening "a window for domestic businesses to experiment", according to Tien.

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