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How to use by the book in a sentence

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Without going into all the ins and outs of the story, Dean seems to have played it by the book at every point.
The names of these privy individuals are known, since this is all done by the book.
Canada, Australia and New Zealand, he explained, have a culture still vestigially fascinated by the book.
From the body of work represented by the book as a whole, the figure of a small boy emerges as an image of the struggle to speak.
His character Hutchwright is the author of Hard Grinding, the steamy bodice-ripper being read by the book club.
No, I am just trying to do the whole thing by the book according to my right as a qualified resident foreigner.
Business as usual, even when done strictly by the book, is not necessarily the safest way of operating.
Now, this might appear to be a time to play things strictly by the book in order to protect your biggest lifetime investment.
We even have to keep an open mind about whether there were any dealings that weren't strictly by the book.
For such policemen, I have no feelings, they ought to be dealt with strictly by the book.
The referee played it by the book and said that League rules say that if the pitch isn't fit at 12 noon it won't get any better.
Well, the often interesting BSS bunch pandered to the crowd and although they did do some self-indulgent jams, it was all by the book.
The abiding impression left by the book is the way the prison system reduces prisoners and screws to animals.
The most recent past shows that it repeatedly pays off for us to do everything strictly by the book.
Goodall was apparently so moved by the book that she failed to notice that it was, in fact, famously written by Thomas de Quincey.
I was frankly worried that a lot of people who work in conservation would be upset by the book.
But hey, life's too short to play it by the book all the time.
His courtroom has a statewide reputation for running by the book and to the minute.
But I also could not help but be charmed by the book as a whole.
It's not because all of these corporations are doing it just by the book.
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Examples from Classical Literature
You'd go by the book if it told yuh to stand 'im on his head in the ice chest!
Going by the book, so to speak, baby-faced Hallur Hansson of Faroe Islands is the most prolific fouler.
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