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... down.
BB
Bill's Story, p.6
2.
... down.
BB
Working With Others, p.99
3.
... down.
BB
To Wives, p.117
4.
... down.
BB
To Wives, p.119
5.
... down.
BB
To Employers, p.145
6.
... down.
BB
A Vision For You, p.151
As we became subjects of
King Alcohol, shivering denizens of his
mad realm, the chilling vapor that is loneliness settled down.
7.
... down."
BB
A Vision For You, p.157
8.
... down!
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
9.
... down.
12&12
Step Two, p.30
10.
... down.
12&12
Step Four, p.45
No doubt we shall point with pride to the good lives we thought we led before the bottle cut us down.
11.
... down.
12&12
Step Ten, p.94
Or, the person concerned
not being present, we thought we were helping others to understand him,
when in actuality our true
motive was to feel superior by pulling him
down.
12.
... down a
lot.
BB
How It Works, p.70
13.
... down and
left in terrified loneliness.
12&12
Step Five, p.57
14.
... down and
out without its unique but ...
BB
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
This self-insurance has resulted in the restoration of physical,
mental and spiritual health and self-respect to hundreds of men and women who would be hopelessly down and out without its unique but effective therapy."
15.
... down and
pour liquor down my throat.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
So it doesn't behoove me to squawk about it for, after all,
nobody ever had to throw me down and pour liquor down my throat.
16.
... down, and
problem drinkers -- alcoholics -- should not ...
12&12
Tradition Six, p.157
They wanted to say that liquor should be enjoyed, not
misused; hard drinkers ought to slow down, and problem drinkers -- alcoholics -- should not drink at all.
17.
... down and
talk aloud about what we ...
12&12
Step Five, p.60
Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so
long hidden, our willingness to clean house is still largely theoretical.
18.
... down are
guides to progress.
BB
How It Works, p.60
19.
... down at
a table and ordered a ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.36
20.
... down because
you cannot put an A.A. ...
12&12
Tradition Six, p.156
Whereupon we tried A.A. hospitals -- they all bogged down because you cannot put an A.A. group into business; too many busybody cooks spoil the broth.
21.
... down by
an early morning truck, for ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.6
I hardly dared cross the street, lest I collapse and be run down by an early morning truck, for it was scarcely daylight.
22.
... down completely.
BB
A Vision For You, p.154
23.
... down, especially
when our demands for attention ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
We had refused to learn the
very hard lesson that overdependence upon people is unsuccessful because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our demands for attention become unreasonable.
24.
... down for
an undisturbed day or so ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.89
Many of us also like the experience of an occasional retreat from
the outside world where we
can quiet down for an undisturbed day or so of self-overhaul and meditation.
25.
... down for
keeps.
12&12
Step Two, p.25
26.
... down for
the count.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.23
27.
... down from
our shelf we turn to ...
BB
Into Action, p.75
28.
... down good,
were about to apply to ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.148
They understood that the elders, just to nail things down good, were about to apply to the Foundation for
a charter.
29.
... down hard
on the hopelessness of the ...
12&12
Tradition Five, p.152
30.
... down, he
began to listen while I ...
12&12
Tradition Five, p.153
But as he calmed down, he began to listen while I tried to show him that humility was the
main key to sobriety.
31.
... down in
every man, woman, and child, ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
Actually we were fooling
ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental
idea of God.
32.
... down in
us under thick layers of ...
12&12
Step Four, pp.53-54
Because our surface record hasn't looked too bad, we have frequently been
abashed to find that this is
so simply because we have
buried these selfsame defects deep down in us under thick layers of self-justification.
33.
... down inside
does he think he is ...
BB
To Employers, p.142
If he says yes, does he really mean it, or down inside does he think he is fooling you, and
that after rest and treatment he will be able to get away with a few drinks now and then?
34.
... down; it's
far too vital.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.164
35.
... down its
experience in a book which ...
12&12
Foreword, p.17
Nevertheless, the infant Society determined to set down its experience in a book which finally reached the public in April 1939.
36.
... down my
throat.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
So it doesn't behoove me to squawk about it for, after all,
nobody ever had to throw me down and pour liquor down my throat.
37.
... down no
rule of any sort, we ...
BB
Into Action, p.81
Though there may be justifiable exceptions, and though we
wish to lay down no rule of
any sort, we have often found this the best course to take.
38.
... down on
his head by a senseless ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.21
He uses his gifts to build up a bright outlook for his family and himself, and then
pulls the structure down on his head by a senseless series of sprees.
39.
... down on
his spiritual program.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.126
40.
... down on
our loved ones -- these things ...
BB
To Wives, p.106
The alarming physical
and mental symptoms, the
deepening pall of remorse, depression and inferiority that settled
down on our loved ones -- these things terrified and distracted
us.
41.
... down on
paper and looked at it.
BB
How It Works, p.69
42.
... down on
the table and forthwith went ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
It was the day before Mother's Day and I had come home plastered, carrying a big potted plant which I set down on the table and forthwith went upstairs and passed out.
43.
... down ranting
how irresponsible and tightwad my ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.162
Looking at this avalanche of mail one morning at the office, I paced up and down ranting how irresponsible and tightwad my fellow members were.
44.
... down the
debit side of the day's ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.94
As we glance down the debit side of the day's ledger, we should carefully examine our motives in each thought or act that appears to be wrong.
45.
... down the
line.
BB
To Employers, p.149
Even if you feel your organization has no alcoholic problem, it might
pay to take another look down the line.
46.
Down the
lobby a door opened into ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.154
47.
... down the
lobby to the church directory.
BB
A Vision For You, p.154
48.
... down the
patient's inner resistance so that ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
I now conceive the psychiatrist's job to be the
task of breaking down the patient's inner resistance so that
which is inside him will flower, as under the activity of the A.A. program."
49.
... down the
scale we have gone, we ...
BB
Into Action, p.84
50.
... down the
structures of business, romance, friendship, ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.123
But the head of the house has
spent years in pulling down the structures of business,
romance, friendship, health -- these things are now ruined or damaged.
51.
... down the
wastepipe.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.22
If he can afford it, he may have liquor concealed all over his house to be certain no one gets his entire supply away from him to throw down the wastepipe.
52.
... down tight.(*)
BB
A Vision For You, p.156
Understand he was once a
well-known lawyer in town, but just now we've got him strapped down tight.(*)
53.
... down to
an alcoholic from any moral ...
BB
Working With Others, p.95
Never talk down to an alcoholic from any moral or spiritual hilltop; simply lay out the kit of spiritual tools for his inspection.
54.
... down to
causes and conditions.
BB
How It Works, p.64
55.
... down to
fundamentals.
BB
To Wives, p.120
56.
... down to
our right size.
12&12
Step Two, p.30
57.
... down to
this: No man should be ...
BB
To Employers, p.148
58.
... down which
they may wander and lose ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.123
59.
... down with
a bang.
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.185
60.
... down with
some member of the family ...
12&12
Step Nine, pp.83-84
After coming from our first meeting, or perhaps after we have finished reading the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," we usually want to sit down with some member of the family and readily admit the damage we have done by our drinking.
61.
... down with
the family and frankly analyze ...
BB
Into Action, p.83
We ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we now see it, being very careful not to criticize them.
62.
... down within
us.
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
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