Citations:text

as past tense/participle

• 2001 November 2, <martin.sharp@ntlworld.com>, "upsetting the girl I love", message-ID <vstE7.180$sD3.150484@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>, alt.romance et al., Usenet [1]:

  I really do love her and would do anything to be with her and to put things right. I have been so upset the last couple of days, I did wrong telling other people but I have text her to apologise, I can't phone as her other half may answer and she is on annual leave from work at the moment.

• 2005 February 25, Karyn <karyn@ferengi.cass-ltd.co.uk>, "Re: OT song for how i am feeling", message-ID <pan.2005.02.25.18.23.36.932255@ferengi.cass-ltd.co.uk>, uk.people.support.depression, Usenet [2]:

  she insists she does not want to come back, the council told me to pack a bag for her to collect today, but she has not been to collect it, i have text her to ask when she will be here, and she at least replied to my text, but says that they never told her that i was packing her a bag, (she seems to be only hearing what she wants to hear atm)

• 2009, Anita Davidson, Fragile Hearts, AuthorHouse (self-published), →ISBN, page 244 [3]:

  Blake was not taking no for an answer, she wasn't going to blow him off, so he text her on her cell phone, saying not acceptable.

  She finally gave in and text him back, saying that "Friday after work is good for me."

• 2009, Chiwena Kabanje, The Seven Sevens and the Jubilee, Holy Fire Publishing, →ISBN, page 222 [4]:

  So they sent him word. If it were in our times, they could have text him.

• 2010, Deborah Schiffrin, Anna De Fina, Anastasia Nylund, Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life, Georgetown University Press, page 127 [5]

  1 N: ((excited and quietly)) oh: Adam text me yesterday 12.31 minutes ((into the lesson))

  2 d' you know what he said:?