Which preposition to use with enquiry

into Occurrences 57%

I fail to recognize your right to make enquiry into my movements.

as Occurrences 19%

They were full of enquiries as to the meaning of an Orange walk.

about Occurrences 16%

I made enquiries about the Ecton mine through Mr Smith (of Edensor), and visited the mine, but in the meantime Whewell had made enquiries in London and found (principally from Dr Paris) that the mine of Dolcoath near Camborne in Cornwall would be a better place for the experiment.

of Occurrences 15%

I made enquiries of all whom I thought likely to know anything concerning this post, but failed to elicit any information showing that there ever had been such a place.

after Occurrences 13%

'DEAR SIR, 'Your kind enquiries after my affairs, and your generous offers, have been communicated to me by Dr. Brocklesby.

at Occurrences 9%

Of course the enquiry at the hotel was not for Ivor Dundas, but for the name he had adopted there; yet when my servant came back to me he had nothing to tell which was consolingrather the other way.

in Occurrences 7%

A line not less frequently quoted was suggested for enquiry in a note on The Rape of Lucrece: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris: But the author of this verse has not, I believe, been discovered.

on Occurrences 6%

She could not bring herself to apply to outsiders for information, and there was no one to take up her case and make enquiries on her behalf.

for Occurrences 6%

A creature hopelessly commonplace, resigned, and unemotional, to her enquiry for Monsieur Lanyard he returned the discounted response: Mister Lanyard was hout, 'e might not be 'ome till quite lite, but 'ad left word that if a lidy called she was to be awsked to wite.

from Occurrences 4%

" He murmured a little word of sympathy, and their conversation was momentarily interrupted as she leaned forward to answer an enquiry from her host.

to Occurrences 4%

I once started the curious enquiry to the great man who was the subject of this compliment: he smiled, but did not pursue it.

by Occurrences 3%

The Chairs, or rather the Court, somewhat impertinently object to the addition I made to a recent draft, recommending an enquiry by practical and scientific men as to the powers India may possess of producing many articles of stores now sent from England.

before Occurrences 3%

The Lord Chief Baron suggested that there might be a previous enquiry before the Country Court, which might for that purpose be a sort of grand jury.

without Occurrences 1%

He may have made the enquiry without using the informationa practice not inconsistent in such a biographer.

like Occurrences 1%

But the whole question of the speculative affinities of a writing like this requires subtle and delicate handling, and should be rather a subject for special treatment than an episode in an enquiry like the present.

than Occurrences 1%

He said, 'Pennant has greater variety of enquiry than almost any man, and has told us more than perhaps one in ten thousand could have done, in the time that he took.

through Occurrences 1%

" Kendrick answered an enquiry through the telephone and leaned back in his chair.

toward Occurrences 1%

I presume you have a right to it?" Etta looked up from her occupation of fixing a bracelet, with a little glance of enquiry toward her husband.

with Occurrences 1%

They were backward to enter into conversation with me, and answered my enquiries with an awkward and embarrassed air.

among Occurrences 1%

Cambridge, Dec. 12. 'It was a very common Enquiry among the Ancients why the Number of excellent Orators, under all the Encouragements the most flourishing States could give them, fell so far short of the Number of those who excelled in all other Sciences.

Which preposition to use with  enquiry