Sentence examples for been shut up from inspiring English sources

If someone or something had been shut up in there, it must have been him.

It is no mean feat to drive three spaniels, after they have been shut up in the kitchenette all night.

Then, responding to questions, he said that yes, he had been shut up in a psychiatric clinic.

Meanwhile the real Mary has been shut up in a chamber in Rotwang's house of many doors.In the last chapter of this picture, after the artificial Mary has turned traitor to Rotwang and Masterman, the "woman" is discovered and burned.

Meanwhile, he turns his publisher's rejection of his project into a claim of kinship with Europe's Jews, on the grounds that he too "had been shut up by the Holocaust" – a breathtakingly glib equivalence.

Basil is sidetracked by a romance with Leon's sister (Gabrielle Union), who has been shut up in tenement purdah by her protective brother until her wedding to a suburban businessman.

The message was "Shut up and calculate".

The other is "Shut up".

It was four o'clock — the van was shut up.

It was four o'clock the van was shut up.

Those who say otherwise will be shut up.