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Example sentences for "enquire after"

  • At last when midnight came I sent my son to your lodging to enquire after you, but you may imagine my 'grief when I heard that nobody knew what had become of you.

  • Full of this idea I went back to the inn, and had my dinner in my own room without troubling to enquire after her.

  • Tell me now whether you intended the order which you gave him yesterday to forget you, never to enquire after you; and even not to know you if he happened to meet you, from the time of our arrival in Parma, for me as well as for him.

  • I shall not be offended if you don't enquire after me, and I shall not ask after you--even if you are ill.

  • We went through Horsydowne, where I never was since a little boy, that I went to enquire after my father, whom we did give over for lost coming from Holland.

  • Carteret to desire him to go with us, and to enquire after money.

  • She was however too much disordered to go down to tea; and told Mrs. Ashwood, who civilly came up to enquire after her, that she had a violent pain in her head and would go to bed.

  • May I now--(or is it still a crime,) enquire after her.

  • I suppose, there must be two; and I must have time to enquire after them.

  • The changing my name was probably the occasion of my not being found out by those employed to enquire after me; and I perhaps ought now to acknowlege myself careless in not acquainting my friends with my good fortune.

  • November 2 My mother drove out in my new chariot to-day (a very gay fine one it is), and went to Putney, to enquire after Miss B.

  • Mr Faulkland came early this morning to enquire after my health: my mother told him I was not well.

  • We went through Horslydowne, where I never was since a boy, that I went to enquire after my father, whom we did give over for lost coming from Holland.

  • If my own destiny was not equivocal, of what importance could it be to me, and what right had I to enquire after circumstances, in which, however affecting, I could have no real concern.

  • He respectfully requested to know in what part of the town I resided, and hoped to be permitted to pay his respects to me, and to enquire after my welfare?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accomplished redemption; apply them; beautiful world; bodily death; boiled yolks; carefully avoided; each plate; earth and; enquire after; enquire whether; filial piety; great impulse; had loved; petition signed; plain stitches; said carelessly; sandy plain; school together; sometimes termed; spinning wheel; used for various purposes; would consider; your presence