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PAY occurs
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[12 in BB ... 15 in 12&12]
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1.
... pay.
BB
Into Action, p.78
Our
drinking has
made us
slow to
pay.
2.
... pay.
BB
To Employers, p.143
If you
propose such a
procedure to him, it may be
necessary to
advance the
cost of
treatment, but we
believe it should be
made plain that
any expense will later be
deducted from his
pay.
3.
... pay."
12&12
Step Two, p.31
We
soon concluded that
whatever price in
humility we
must pay, we would
pay."
4.
... pay a
nonalcoholic for the same job.
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.168
If we
hired an
alcoholic,
he'd
receive only what we'd have to
pay a
nonalcoholic for the
same job.
5.
... pay --
and pay handsomely.
12&12
Step Eight, p.80
6.
... pay anything,
believe anything, or conform to ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.141
7.
... pay dearly
for skimping this Step.
12&12
Step Five, p.56
8.
... pay dividends.
BB
To Employers, p.141
9.
... pay dividends
only if he mines it ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.129
He may not
see at
once that he
has
barely scratched a
limitless lode which
will pay dividends only if he
mines it
for the
rest of his
life and
insists on
giving away the
entire product.
10.
... pay envelopes
home.
BB
To Wives, pp.105-106
An
armored car could not have
brought the
pay envelopes home.
11.
... pay for
this presumption in all sorts ...
BB
Into Action, p.87
We might
pay for this
presumption in all
sorts of
absurd actions and
ideas.
12.
... pay handsomely.
12&12
Step Eight, p.80
13.
... pay him,
or even to love him.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
He does not
expect his
brother sufferer to
pay him, or
even to
love him.
14.
... pay its
bills, that's really news.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.160
15.
... pay my
bills at the bars and ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.5
16.
... pay, no
axes to grind, no people ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.18
That the
man who is
making the
approach has had the
same difficulty, that he
obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his
whole
deportment shouts at the
new prospect that he is a
man with a
real answer, that he has
no attitude of
Holier Than
Thou,
nothing whatever except the
sincere desire to be
helpful; that there are
no fees to
pay,
no axes to
grind,
no people to
please,
no lectures to be
endured -- these are the
conditions we have
found
most
effective.
17.
... pay off
after all.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.113
We
begin to
think that
A.A. doesn't
pay off
after all.
18.
... pay, or
promise to pay, whatever obligations, ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.84
19.
... pay ourselves.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.161
These
simple services
would
require small sums of
money which we could and
would
pay ourselves.
20.
... pay the
penalty by a spree.
BB
Working With Others, p.99
21.
... pay the
price.
BB
To Wives, p.108
Especially when he has
before him a
way to
stop his
drinking and
abuse if he
really wants to
pay the
price.
22.
... pay them
well, and they earn what ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.169
We
pay them
well, and they
earn what they
get.
23.
... pay to
take another look down the ...
BB
To Employers, p.149
24.
... pay up.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.163
But
finally he
said it -- the
landlord would
put us
out if we didn't
pay up.
25.
... pay very
dearly physically and, in hope ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
26.
... pay, we
would pay."
12&12
Step Two, p.31
We
soon concluded that
whatever price in
humility we
must pay, we would
pay."
27.
... pay, whatever
obligations, financial or otherwise, we ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.84
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