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1.
... came.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
2.
... came.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
There had been a
humble willingness to have Him with me -- and He
came.
3.
... came.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
Then, like a
thunderbolt, a
great thought came.
4.
... came along,
he found he could talk ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
When
opportunities to be
helpful came along, he
found he could
talk easily about
A.A. to almost
anyone.
5.
... came away
with an answer.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Many an
alcoholic who
entered there
came away with
an
answer.
6.
... came back.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
7.
... came back
again.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
8.
... came back
at them.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
With
great sarcasm Ed came back at them.
9.
... came back
too soon.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
We have seen others
slip when the
family came back too soon.
10.
... came by
confessing the sins of other ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
They always
discovered that
relief never came by
confessing the
sins of other people.
11.
... came faintly
over long distance from Virginia.
BB p.137,
To Employers
12.
... came first.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Just
resign from the
debating society and
quit bothering yourself with such
deep questions as whether it was the
hen or the
egg that
came first.
13.
... came first.
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
How well they saw that their
common welfare came first.
14.
... came for
him to speak in a ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
At
length the
time came for him to
speak in a
meeting.
15.
... came his
carpet slippers and a bottle.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
Out
came his
carpet slippers and a
bottle.
16.
... came home
drunk.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
17.
... came home
exhausted, but very happy.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
18.
... came in.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
At the
end of a few
days, the
news came in.
19.
... came in
my direction, and I reached ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
The
hat came in my
direction, and I
reached
into my
pocket.
20.
... came in
saying that Mr. B___ insisted ...
BB p.136,
To Employers
One
day my
secretary came in saying that
Mr. B___
insisted on
speaking with
me.
21.
... came into
contact with us.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
On
leaving the
asylum he
came into
contact with us.
22.
... came into
view.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
A new
world came into
view.
23.
... came near
putting Galileo to death for ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
24.
... came off
badly.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
25.
... came off
press in 1976, achieved a ...
BB xi,
Preface
26.
... came off
press in November 2001, at ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
27.
... came off
well, I was pleased and ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
My
business came off well,
I was
pleased and
knew my
partners would be too.
28.
... came our
first few excursions into major ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
29.
... came our
way, we indulged ourselves in ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
When
temporary good fortune came our way, we
indulged ourselves in
fantasies of still
greater victories over
people and
circumstances.
30.
... came out.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
In
fragments, his
story
came out.
31.
... came out
the other side of that ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
And as he
came out the other
side of that
painful experience, this
prayer
was his
expression of what he could then see,
feel, and
wish to
become:
32.
... came over
them.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
They
show how the
change
came over them.
33.
... came right
out of the Bible -- a ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
In
fact, it
came right out of the
Bible -- a
voice kept saying to me, 'The
laborer is
worthy of his
hire.'
34.
... came, scarcely
daring to be hopeful, though ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
His
wife came,
scarcely daring to be
hopeful, though she
thought
she saw something
different about her
husband already.
35.
... came that
God does "move in a ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
He will also
report that out of every
season of
grief or
suffering, when the
hand of
God seemed heavy or even
unjust, new
lessons for
living were
learned, new
resources of
courage were
uncovered, and that finally,
inescapably, the
conviction came that
God does "
move in a
mysterious way His
wonders to
perform."
36.
... came that
there were thousands of hopeless ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
While I
lay in the
hospital
the
thought came that there
were
thousands of
hopeless alcoholics who
might be
glad to have what had been so
freely given me.
37.
... came the
expression of an aspiration and ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
Next came the
expression of an
aspiration and a
hope for
himself.
38.
... came the
hospital with unbearable mental and ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
39.
... came the
inevitable explosion -- something like that ...
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
40.
... came the
insidious insanity of that first ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
Then
came the
insidious
insanity of that
first drink, and on
Armistice Day 1934, I was off again.
41.
... came the
night when the physical and ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
Then
came the
night when the
physical and
mental torture was so
hellish I
feared I would
burst through
my
window,
sash and all.
42.
... came the
opposition.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
Then
came the
opposition.
43.
... came through
an acquaintance who had heard ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
He
came through an
acquaintance who had
heard the
good news.
44.
... came through
the receiver: "I just wanted ...
BB p.136,
To Employers
I still
expected a
plea
for
clemency, but these
words came through the
receiver: "I just
wanted to
tell you
Paul jumped from a
hotel window in
Hartford last Saturday.
45.
... came to
a few A.A. meetings and ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Other
thousands came to a
few
A.A. meetings and at
first decided they didn't
want the
program.
46.
... came to
A.A. and really tried, 50% ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Of
alcoholics who
came
to
A.A. and really
tried,
50% got
sober at once and
remained that way;
25%
sobered up after some
relapses, and among the
remainder, those who
stayed on with
A.A. showed improvement.
47.
... came to
A.A. because of such conversations.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
Many a new
man and
woman came to
A.A. because of such
conversations.
48.
... came to
A.A., we had to recognize ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
After we
came to
A.A., we had to
recognize that this
trait had been an
ego-
feeding proposition.
49.
... came to
believe in a Higher Power, ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
50.
... came to
believe in a Power greater ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
I can't say upon what
occasion or upon what
day I
came to
believe in a
Power greater than myself, but I
certainly have that
belief
now.
51.
"Came to
believe that a Power greater ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
"
Came to
believe that a
Power greater than ourselves
could
restore us to
sanity."
52.
... came to
believe that a Power greater ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
It is really saying to us that we now ought to be
willing to
try humility in
seeking the
removal of our other
shortcomings just as we did when we
admitted that we were
powerless over
alcohol,
and
came to
believe that a
Power greater than
ourselves could
restore us to
sanity.
53.
... Came to
believe that a Power greater ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
2.
Came to
believe that a
Power greater than
ourselves could
restore us to
sanity.
54.
... came to
live almost alone.
BB p.105,
To Wives
We
came to
live almost alone.
55.
... came to
mind that it would be ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
As I
crossed the
threshold of the
dining room, the
thought came to
mind that it would be
nice to have a
couple of
cocktails with
dinner.
56.
... came to
scoff, he may remain to ...
BB xxxii(xxx),
The Doctor's Opinion
I
earnestly advise
every
alcoholic to
read
this book through, and though perhaps he
came to
scoff, he may
remain to
pray.
57.
... came to
see me.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
"
Two of the
members of
Alcoholics Anonymous
came to see me.
58.
... came to
shipwreck during our drinking careers.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
These were
reefs upon which many of us
came to
shipwreck during our
drinking careers.
59.
... came to
the conclusion that it was ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
After
consulting with his
wife and
partner he
came to the
conclusion that it
was
better to take those
risks than to
stand before his
Creator guilty of such
ruinous slander.
60.
... came to
the hospital to rest his ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
Far from
admitting he was an
alcoholic, he told himself he
came to the
hospital to
rest his
nerves.
61.
... came to
us when we put ourselves ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
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.
62.
... came to
work on Tuesday morning.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
This is his
story: "I
came to
work on
Tuesday morning.
63.
... came under
our care in this hospital ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
Many
years ago one of the
leading contributors
to this book
came under our
care in this
hospital and
while here he
acquired some
ideas which he
put into
practical application
at once.
64.
... came up
behind Walter.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
Liquor caught up with me
much
faster than I
came up
behind Walter.
65.
... came up
out of his cyclone cellar ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
He is like the
farmer who
came up out of his
cyclone cellar to find his
home ruined.
66.
... came up
with a conclusion that shocked ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
They finally
came up with a
conclusion that
shocked
the
A.A. members of that
time.
67.
... came up
with a fifty-cent piece.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
Still
working on my
prospect, I
fumbled and
came up with a
fifty-
cent piece.
68.
... came up
with an old financial statement.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
69.
... came up
with the right answer for ...
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
"
Thank heaven I
came up with the
right answer for that one.
70.
... came when
I drank once more.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
But it was not, for the
frightful day came when I
drank once more.
71.
... came when
we sought for humility as ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
A
great turning point in our
lives came when we
sought for
humility as something we really
wanted, rather than as something we
must have.
72.
... came with
a heavy sedative.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
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