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Example sentences for "upon inquiry"

  • And when, upon inquiry, the king was informed of what happened to him, he sent out a third captain.

  • Upon inquiry it appeared that Miss Veal, whom she had thus seen, whose dress she had touched, and with whom she had conversed for nearly two hours, had died the day before!

  • In the garden of the house she saw a gentleman accompanied by a lady in black, and a dog of light color with dark spots; upon inquiry it appeared that Colonel B.

  • Upon inquiry it turned out that the shipwrecked man had at noon fallen into a deep sleep, during which he had seen a ship approaching to their rescue.

  • Upon inquiry from Mr. Younge I learnt, that not one of the party had ever seen or heard of Monsieur Guygny before they had now met at Rambouillet.

  • I learned, upon inquiry, that the half-yearly fair was to be held on the following day; a piece of information which confirmed my previous intention of passing that day at Amiens.

  • Upon inquiry, I found he had paid his debt to nature a month before, lamenting my absence to his last hour, having left his fortune to a stranger, as a mark of his resentment of my unkind and undutiful behaviour.

  • Upon inquiry it was ascertained that they had been staying there during a short time only, and that they passed as mercantile men.

  • We found, upon inquiry, that it was Seattle, the old chief for whom the town was named, and the head of all the tribes on the Sound.

  • Upon inquiry, we found out that they were boiled ferns.

  • Upon inquiry as to the cause of the accident, I ascertained that it was in consequence of a point for turning off on to another set of rails being broken.

  • Upon inquiry, we found this was a very common event, nor did anybody seem to think it a subject worth taking pains to have rectified, though the smallest amount of common sense and common arrangement might easily obviate it.

  • They immediately bound him, and brought him to Drake, who, upon inquiry, found that their spy had not deceived them in his intelligence.

  • Upon inquiry, the following information was gleaned from them.

  • Upon inquiry as to the treatment and character of his master, Sauney unhesitatingly described him as a "very mean, swearing, blustering man, as hard as any that could be started.

  • Upon inquiry I was told that that was only a matter of routine, and a rule of long standing.

  • Upon inquiry, I found that the paymaster was not in the city, but that he kept his public funds in the Bank of South Carolina.

  • Upon inquiry I learned, with sorrow, that it was the body of Colonel H.

  • This I learned, upon inquiry, was always the case after interring the corpse and leaving the cemetery.

  • Upon inquiry, some one on board informed me that he believed they had projectiles for ballast, and these were rolling and shifting at each plunge the steamer made.

  • Some of the pictures introduced by him were also found, upon inquiry, to be the very same that might be met with in the mass-book.

  • Upon inquiry, it appeared that no such expressions had been used.

  • Upon inquiry I found he had passed without a stool the whole day.

  • Upon inquiry I found he had vomited up the salts soon after taking them, and had only one costive stool; he had complied with my orders about getting into the air several times in the day, though with great difficulty.

  • Upon inquiry, they found that it came from the vault below the house of lords; that a magazine of coals had been kept there; and that, as the coals were selling off, the vault would be let to the highest bidder.

  • He frequently boasts of the management of Ireland as his masterpiece; and it will appear, upon inquiry, that his vanity in this particular was not altogether without foundation.

  • Upon inquiry, we found that this was Lord Winterton, whose name, they told us, was Turnour.

  • Upon inquiry, I find that the hops are equally bad at Alton, Froyle, Crondall, and even at Farnham.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both instances; external world; length figure; musical voice; otherwise mentioned; solar hero; somewhere about; upon account; upon being; upon conviction; upon earth; upon entering; upon examination; upon her; upon himself; upon his; upon occasion; upon the; upon the other hand; upon thee; upon their; upon this; upon what; vascular bundles; when perfectly; word spoken