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Looking back, maybe I should have cross-examined him and said, 'John, did you do it?'

From Time Magazine Archive

Because he could have cross-examined at the preliminary hearing, the state's highest court upheld his conviction.

From Time Magazine Archive

When I was with Noel, I should have cross-examined him, got hold of a quantity of useful details; but I did not even think of doing so.

From The Widow Lerouge by Gaboriau, Émile

Besides, he would have cross-examined me before the public in Old Bailey style; no story, the most straightforward that ever was told, could be sure to stand that.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

I have cross-examined him several times,” Nikolay Parfenovitch confirmed warmly.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor