strictly **

Nothing was left to chance, and things were done strictly by the book.

He came into her office once, strictly on a business matter.

She needed to be left strictly alone for the full time.

Better to keep the deal strictly on a business level.

He was strictly small time, near as I can tell.

Or if my life was pretty strictly run by someone else.

So he saw to your education and left you strictly alone.

Most people then had enough sense to leave him strictly alone.

He's been working strictly from home for the past three months.

Not strictly true, but he wanted to hear what she had to say.

In the years since, its focus has been strictly local.

They took the old man's words strictly at their face value.

It was strictly friends and how many did you have?

"I still think you should play this one strictly by the book."

Tonight had been strictly business, a means to an end.

She knew his history, and it was strictly middle of the road.

She must always, of course, be kept strictly in her place.

Most politics and social issues were strictly on the local level.

But in either case, that person is no longer strictly human.

Only now, that turned out to be not strictly true.

I know why he took his own life, and it is strictly personal.

When they began to work their way in, it was strictly one step at a time.

But they might have been better off had he kept the music moving more strictly.

A woman he would like to spend a little time with other than strictly business.

This is not strictly party line as you go through it.