Example sentences of "[adv prt] into a [adj] knot " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initial alarm that had swept over her in the apartment had now settled down into a tight knot of almost sick apprehension , which lay like heavy lead deep in her stomach . |
| 2 | Each chain coils up into a complicated knot , the precise shape of which is determined by the order of amino acids . |
| 3 | The news that she had in fact been successful in her interview went a very long way to ease her bruised feelings — so much so that when the day dawned when she was to start her new job she almost forgot to pull her hair back into a screwed-up knot , and to don her glasses . |
| 4 | Instead of dragging it back into a tight knot in the nape of her neck , she twisted it into a more becoming coil , leaving the tendrils which had been twisted in the curl rags , to curl prettily round her face . |
| 5 | She had always had grey hair , scraped back into a no-nonsense knot and wore baggy knitted suits . |