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1.
... back.
BB
Bill's Story, p.4
2.
... back.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.38
But the
day he
comes out he
races in
front of a
fire engine, which
breaks his
back.
3.
... back.
BB
Working With Others, p.99
4.
... back.
12&12
Step Five, p.59
5.
... back again.
BB
Bill's Story, p.10
6.
Back again
in their caves, alcoholics would ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.129
Back again in their
caves,
alcoholics would
reproach us and
say, "What a
great thing A.A. might have been!"
7.
... back airing
porch when winter days got ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
8.
... back and
fished out a dime, which ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.163
9.
... back and
forth over our careers, and ...
12&12
Step Five, p.55
10.
... back and
think.
12&12
Step Ten, p.91
When we are
tempted by the
bait, we should
train ourselves to
step back and
think.
11.
... back, as
my wife and I sought ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.6
There were
flights from
city
to
country and
back, as my
wife and I
sought escape.
12.
... back at
them.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.143
With
great sarcasm Ed came back
at them.
13.
... back away
from their individual responsibilities to ...
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.177
14.
... back debts;
the third deck would house ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.147
15.
... back every
time he tries to look ...
12&12
Step Four, p.49
16.
... back for
one reason or another.
BB
Working With Others, p.99
17.
... back for
two more quarters and remain ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
I was, of
course,
soon on the
carpet and the
upshot was
that I had to
go back for
two more quarters and
remain absolutely dry, if I
wished to
graduate.
18.
... back from
the gates of death.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvii
19.
... back, I
find that I took it ...
12&12
Step Two, p.26
20.
... back, I
thought that I was safe.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
When
beer first came back, I
thought that I was
safe.
21.
... back in
a little while hoping, always ...
BB
To Wives, p.105
22.
... back in
exhaustion after each futile effort ...
BB
To Wives, p.107
23.
... back in
here again, we observe a ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
24.
... back in
our own drinking histories, we ...
12&12
Step One, p.23
25.
... back in
the 1920's.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.136
Handing it to me, he
continued, 'This
shows the
kind of
money the
hospital used to
make back in the
1920's.
26.
... back in
the hospital.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.40
One day we were
told that he was
back in the
hospital.
27.
... back instantly!
BB
The Family Afterward, p.123
28.
... back into
his community in full citizenship, ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.110
29.
... back into
the drink.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.139
30.
... back into
the old habits which had ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
31.
... back into
the social life of this ...
BB
Working With Others, p.102
Now you are
getting back into the
social life of this
world.
32.
... back nevertheless.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.40
33.
... back nothing,
only by being willing to ...
12&12
Step Five, p.59
34.
... back nothing,
your sense of relief will ...
12&12
Step Five, p.62
35.
... back of
any other cause.
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.177
36.
Back of
them is a world of ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.20
37.
... back on
Step Five.
12&12
Step Five, p.56
38.
... back over
his life, he can readily ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
39.
... back steps
where I could get it ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
My
bootlegger had
hidden
alcohol at the
back steps where I could
get it at my
convenience.
40.
... back the
esteem of our friends and ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
41.
... back the
next morning better than most ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
42.
... back there
in some way, and I ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
Finally my
father had to
send a
doctor out from my
home town who
managed to
get me
back there in some
way, and I was in
bed about
two months before I could
venture out of the
house.
43.
... back, they
think.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.123
The
good old days will soon be
back, they
think.
44.
... back through
our lives.
BB
How It Works, p.65
45.
... back through
our lives as far as ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.81
46.
... back to
Brooklyn on the subway, I ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.137
47.
... back to
drink, but I soon found ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.15
48.
... back to
husband number one.
BB
To Wives, p.110
49.
... back to
it even if I could."
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.43
I would not
go back to it
even if I could."
50.
... back to
sit in the meeting place, ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.173
Groups have
tried to
expel members, but the
banished have
come back to
sit in the
meeting place,
saying, "This is
life for us; you
can't
keep us
out."
51.
... back to
that sunlit beach -- or to ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
So
let's
get back to that
sunlit beach -- or to the
plains or to
the
mountains, if you
prefer.
52.
... back to
the bar.
BB
Bill's Story, p.4
53.
... back to
the fraternity house because of ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
54.
... back to
the list, for it held ...
BB
How It Works, p.66
We
turned back to the
list, for it
held the
key to the
future.
55.
... back to
you from him.
BB
To Wives, p.118
Show him these
things in
yourself and they
will be
reflected back to you from
him.
56.
... back too
soon.
BB
Working With Others, p.100
We have
seen others slip when the
family came back too
soon.
57.
... back, we
feel we had gone on ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
As we
look back, we
feel we had
gone on
drinking many years beyond the
point where we could
quit on our
will power.
58.
... back, we
realize that the things which ...
BB
Working With Others, p.100
When we
look back, we
realize that the
things which
came to us when we
put ourselves in
God's
hands were
better than
anything we could have
planned.
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