1.   Ellie darted back to her room and shut herself in.

2.   He pushed the dogs into the breakfast room and shut them in.

3.   He shut himself in his room and wrote letters.

4.   In the hottest months these curtains would be tightly shut in one more effort to get away from the heat and glare.

5.   She shut herself in out of the drizzling rain, and expressed her delight with everything.

6.   Silly-Willie spent most of his days shut in a back room.

7.   So Ellie darted back to her room, and shut herself in, her heart pounding.

8.   The fields and woods were shut in under it, emptied and subdued.

9.   Then she shut us in the byre - and we stayed there a long time!