Yes so why did you say shut up in the first place?

He would not speak with me, but immediately shut up himself in his study and started working on a new project.

"The man who shut himself up in the house because his wife died?"

He'd like to shut me up in a box for the next two years.

After all, she was not going to be shut up in prison!

You mean she doesn't spend her whole life shut up in that house at.

You will shut me up in this place, for my safety.

He had never been so shut up in a place.

If she has started talking, telling anyone about it would shut her up in a second.