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1.
... last.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
Twenty-
two, and a
veteran of
foreign wars, I went
home at
last.
2.
... last.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
3.
... last.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
I, who had
thought so well of myself and my
abilities, of my
capacity to
surmount obstacles, was
cornered
at
last.
4.
... last.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
I
stood in the
sunlight
at
last.
5.
... last.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
Little or
nothing, we saw
at
last.
6.
... last.
BB p.75,
Into Action
Carefully reading the
first five proposals we
ask if we have
omitted anything, for we are
building an
arch through
which we shall
walk a
free man at
last.
7.
... last.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
Life will
mean something at
last.
8.
... last.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
The
expression on the
faces of the
women, that
indefinable something in the
eyes of the
men, the
stimulating and
electric atmosphere of
the place,
conspired to let him
know that here was
haven at
last.
9.
... last abandon
ourselves utterly to Him.
BB p.63,
How It Works
We
thought well before
taking this
step making sure we were
ready; that we could at
last abandon ourselves
utterly
to Him.
10.
... last analysis
it is only there that ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
In the
last analysis it is
only there that He may be
found.
11.
... last, and
all the time -- is the ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
This being so, we
think it
logically follows that
sobriety --
first,
last, and all the
time -- is the
only thing we
need to
work
for.
12.
... last, and
in the midst of the ...
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
I was
part of
life at
last, and in the
midst of the
excitement I
discovered liquor.
13.
... last bender,
the chances are he will ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
If you
ask him why he
started on that
last bender, the
chances are he
will
offer you any one of a
hundred alibis.
14.
... last!" ...
better do one thing supremely well ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
"
Shoemaker,
stick to
thy last!" ...
better do one thing
supremely well than many
badly.
15.
... last century
than in all the millenniums ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
This
world of ours has made more
material progress in the
last century than in all
the
millenniums which went before.
16.
... last chance."
BB p.138,
To Employers
He has just
returned from a
three-
months leave of
absence, has
taken a
cure,
looks fine, and to
clinch the
matter, the
board of
directors told him
this was his
last chance."
17.
... last days
of heavy drinking.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
But not so with us in those
last days of
heavy drinking.
18.
... last debauch.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
In
reality that was the
beginning of my
last debauch.
19.
... last experience
taught us that to take ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
At
last experience taught us that to take away any
alcoholic's
full chance was sometimes to
pronounce his
death sentence, and often to
condemn him to
endless misery.
20.
... last flicker
of conviction that I could ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
This
process snuffed out
the
last flicker of
conviction that I could do the
job myself.
21.
... "last-gaspers" often
had difficulty in realizing how ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
Even these "
last-
gaspers"
often had
difficulty in
realizing how
hopeless
they
actually were.
22.
... last honest
manual labor on my part ...
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
That was the
last honest manual labor on my
part for many a
day.
23.
... last, however,
a plain line of cleavage ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
At
last, however, a
plain line of
cleavage could be
seen between
professionalism and
nonprofessionalism.
24.
... last I
saw, I felt, I believed.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
At
long last I saw, I
felt, I
believed.
25.
... last longer
than his preaching.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
Besides, my
gin would
last longer than his
preaching.
26.
... last mile
and we did not like ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
Perhaps we had been
leaning too
heavily on
Reason that
last mile and we did not like to
lose our
support.
27.
... last on
the right track.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Having
found the
shoes that
fit, he ought to
step into them
and
walk with new
confidence that he is at
last on the
right track.
28.
... last ounce
of food, our pick struck ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
29.
... last Saturday.
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.
30.
... last six
months.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
But he's a
grand chap when
he's
sober, though he's been in here
eight times in the
last six months.
31.
... last straw.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
This, the
newcomer thinks, is just about the
last
straw.
32.
... last summer
an alcoholic crackpot; now, I ...
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
33.
... last ten
or fifteen years of literal ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
They were
spared that
last
ten or
fifteen years of
literal hell the
rest of us had
gone through.
34.
... last the
pendulum stopped swinging and pointed ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
35.
... last three
times, I got drunk on ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
The
last three times, I got
drunk on the way
home from here.
36.
... last time.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
Following each, he not only
drinks again, but
acts worse than the
last time.
37.
... last time.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Then there are those
occasions when alone, or in
the
company of our
sponsor or
spiritual adviser, we make a
careful
review of our
progress
since the
last time.
38.
... last time.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
At the
hospital I was
separated from
alcohol
for the
last time.
39.
... last time
he did so.
BB p.116,
To Wives
But be
careful not to be
resentful about the
last time he did so.
40.
... last word
on this subject, but so ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
By no
means do we
offer it
as the
last word on this
subject, but so far as we are
concerned, it has
worked
with us.
41.
... last word,
the alpha and the omega, ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
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