make inquiry
Example Sentences
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That standard will ensure inquiry where the facts and circumstances make inquiry appropriate, without turning every summons dispute into a fishing expedition for official wrongdoing.”
From Forbes • Jun. 21, 2014
When the authorities sought to make inquiry a British cruiser appeared and interfered.
From Time Magazine Archive
His uneasiness increasing instead of subsiding, after a quarter of an hour’s consideration, he set off for the coach-office with Startop, who volunteered his company, to make inquiry when the next coach went down.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Van Helsing and I tried to make inquiry at the back of the house; but the mews was deserted and no one had seen him depart.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
“The person stopped, when he stopped to make inquiry of me, and the person took this way when he took this way.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
