go by the book

My wife, being a teacher, goes by the book, so we had to look at pretty much everything, in order.

You go by the book and you'll get no argument from me.

I'd met him years before; not a bad sort, but one who went by the book.

We go by the book here, but turn those pages quickly.

"I'll just check this one and then we can go by the book."

Most guys who go by the book are just trying to prove they've read it.

I resisted taking the law into my own hands and went by the book.

Still, you had to go by the book, in case of a tribunal later on.

I've got to go by the book or I get it thrown at me.

She thought of asking her dad to call and decided no, go by the book.

Yet, the coach said he "does not go by the book" on game days.

This time I didn't try to go by the book so much.

But you'll find we don't go by the book very much.

Maybe there's a time when you don't go by the book.

He taught me to act on my instincts instead of going by the book all the time.

"In this day and age, you go by the book."

I go by the book, and now I'm asking you to help me break the law."

"The more I can go by the book on this, the better it is for everyone involved.

They went by the book, they said, and what else could you ask?

"You're the one who keeps telling me to go by the book."

As in the type who go by the book?

"You have to go by the book and enforce very consistently."

Like the rest of the groundhogs they go by the book.

You find yourself going by the book instead of by your head.

Not going by the book has at times been painful for her and the others ordained in 1974.