make inquiry

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.

“The person stopped, when he stopped to make inquiry of me, and the person took this way when he took this way.”

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.

If you still have any doubt, make inquiry as to what happened to Hiroshima when just one atomic bomb fell on that city.

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.”