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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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GONE   occurs   33 times 23 in BB  •  10 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   gones
goner
good
goods

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1.
  ... gone.  BB Bill's Story, p.10
But that was as far as I had gone.


2.
  ... gone.  BB To Wives, p.105
Positions were always in jeopardy or gone.


3.
  ... gone.  BB To Wives, p.110
Many of our husbands were just as far gone.


4.
  ... gone.  BB A Vision For You, p.151
The old pleasures were gone.


5.
  ... gone.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
I knew everyone would buy a few bottles, or cases, of liquor as their exchequers permitted, and that it would soon be gone.


6.
  ... gone all out in confusing the ends ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.71
Quite characteristically, we had gone all out in confusing the ends with the means.


7.
  ... gone all out to carry A.A.'s message.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.181
Veteran newsmen, trained doubters that they are, have gone all out to carry A.A.'s message.


8.
  ... gone along without drinking for a few ...  BB To Employers, p.146
After your man has gone along without drinking for a few months, you may be able to make use of his services with other employees who are giving you the alcoholic run-around -- provided, of course, they are willing to have a third party in the picture.


9.
  ... gone astray, have been the primary cause ...  12&12 Step Four, p.50
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions: that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary cause of his drinking and his failure at life; that unless he is now willing to work hard at the elimination of the worst of these defects, both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the faulty foundation of his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.


10.
  ... gone beyond recall in a few years.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.33
Potential female alcoholics often turn into the real thing and are gone beyond recall in a few years.


11.
  ... gone much further than husband number two.  BB To Wives, p.109
Three: This husband has gone much further than husband number two.


12.
  ... gone, no matter how grave your emotional ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.139
No matter who you are, no matter how low you've gone, no matter how grave your emotional complications -- even your crimes -- we still can't deny you A.A.


13.
  ... gone on before.  BB Bill's Story, p.8
Now I was to plunge into the dark, joining that endless procession of sots who had gone on before.


14.
  ... gone on drinking many years beyond the ...  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.


15.
  ... gone on to better things.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.149
It had picked itself up with a laugh and gone on to better things.


16.
  ... gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.37
In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.


17.
  ... gone peaceable, and become one great big ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
Maybe this sounds as though the alcoholics in A.A. had suddenly gone peaceable, and become one great big happy family.


18.
  ... gone religious.  BB Into Action, p.77
It is seldom wise to approach an individual, who still smarts from our injustice to him, and announce that we have gone religious.


19.
  ... gone through.  12&12 Step One, p.23
They were spared that last ten or fifteen years of literal hell the rest of us had gone through.


20.
  ... gone through hell for him.  BB Into Action, p.81
A man so involved often feels very remorseful at times, especially if he is married to a loyal and courageous girl who has literally gone through hell for him.


21.
  ... gone through this process in some degree.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.135
Nearly every oldtimer in our Society has gone through this process in some degree.


22.
  ... gone through what you have.  BB To Wives, p.119
They need the counsel and love of a woman who has gone through what you have.


23.
  ... gone to Akron on a business venture ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
The broker had gone to Akron on a business venture which had collapsed, leaving him greatly in fear that he might start drinking again.


24.
  ... gone to classes, and even though fully ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
Many mornings I have gone to classes, and even though fully prepared, would turn and walk back to the fraternity house because of my jitters, not daring to enter the classroom for fear of making a scene should I be called on for recitation.


25.
  ... gone to Europe, placing himself in the ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.26
Then he had gone to Europe, placing himself in the care of a celebrated physician (the psychiatrist, Dr. Jung) who prescribed for him.


26.
  ... gone to hell again.  BB Bill's Story, p.6
A morning paper told me the market had gone to hell again.


27.
  ... gone to my old hospital in despair.  BB Bill's Story, p.15
Many times I have gone to my old hospital in despair.


28.
  ... gone to pieces long ago.  BB To Wives, p.119
Without you he would have gone to pieces long ago.


29.
  ... gone to recover from a bad case ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
We first saw Fred about a year ago in a hospital where he had gone to recover from a bad case of jitters.


30.
  ... gone to the extremes you fellows did, ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.38
We admit we have some of these symptoms, but we have not gone to the extremes you fellows did, nor are we likely to, for we understand ourselves so well after what you have told us that such things cannot happen again.


31.
  ... gone to the other extreme and settled ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.156
We are all perfectionists who, failing perfection, have gone to the other extreme and settled for the bottle and the blackout.


32.
  ... gone, we will see how our experience ...  BB Into Action, p.84
No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.


33.
  ... gone wrong.  12&12 Step Five, p.59
If the Creator gave us our lives in the first place, then He must know in every detail where we have since gone wrong.


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