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1.
... sometimes a
mistake.
BB
Working With Others, p.95
This is
sometimes a
mistake.
2.
Sometimes a
new man is anxious to ...
BB
Working With Others, p.95
Sometimes a
new man is
anxious to
proceed at
once, and you may be
tempted to
let him do so.
3.
... sometimes a
serious one.
12&12
Step Two, p.25
4.
Sometimes a
small deal would net a ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.5
Sometimes a
small deal would
net a
few hundred dollars, and I would
pay my
bills at the
bars and
delicatessens.
5.
... sometimes a
very great one, was felt ...
BB
How It Works, p.63
This was only a
beginning,
though if
honestly and
humbly made, an
effect,
sometimes a
very great one, was
felt at
once.
6.
Sometimes A.A.
comes harder to those who ...
12&12
Step Two, p.28
Sometimes A.A. comes harder to
those who have
lost or
rejected faith than to
those who
never had
any faith at all, for they
think they have
tried faith and
found it
wanting.
7.
... sometimes accuse
even their best friends of ...
12&12
Step Five, p.56
8.
... sometimes assure
us that, after all, a ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.79
Those who did would
sometimes
assure us that,
after all, a
lively bender was only a
good man's
fault.
9.
... sometimes bad
actors.
12&12
Step Five, p.55
10.
... sometimes be
quite as damaging.
12&12
Step Eight, p.81
Let us
think of some of the
subtler ones which can
sometimes be
quite as
damaging.
11.
... sometimes be
quite virtuous.
BB
How It Works, p.61
12.
... sometimes be
unreasonable and you will want ...
BB
To Wives, p.117
13.
... sometimes been
obliged to separate for a ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.125
14.
... sometimes begin
with indifference.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
15.
... sometimes brought
home -- our husbands thought we ...
BB
To Wives, p.106
16.
... sometimes carry
the message to so many ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
17.
... sometimes creates
serious complications in a family.
BB
Working With Others, p.97
It is not
good for him, and it
sometimes creates serious complications
in a
family.
18.
... sometimes crippled
by our own illness that ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
Can we have the
same kind of
confidence and
faith in
these
people who have been
infected and
sometimes crippled by our
own illness that we have in our
sponsors?
19.
... sometimes deranged
family lives that we bring ...
12&12
Step Twelve, pp.111-112
Can we
bring the
same spirit of
love and
tolerance into our
sometimes
deranged family lives that we
bring to our
A.A. group?
20.
... sometimes difficult
to follow, but you will ...
BB
To Wives, p.111
21.
... sometimes discuss
those intimate and harrowing aspects ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.185
22.
... sometimes displays
with respect to other matters?
BB
There Is A Solution, p.22
23.
... sometimes dominated
by a pathetic hardness and ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.134
24.
... sometimes drinks
in the morning and through ...
BB
To Wives, p.109
He
sometimes drinks in the
morning and
through the
day also, to
hold his
nervousness in
check.
25.
... sometimes encounter
people who do not understand ...
BB
Into Action, p.74
26.
... sometimes feel
his own inadequacy.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
27.
... sometimes frightening
people were to make astonishing ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.140
28.
... sometimes go
to the other extreme and ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.120
29.
Sometimes he
drinks on the way home ...
BB
To Wives, p.110
Sometimes he
drinks on the
way home from the
hospital.
30.
Sometimes he
explodes over a trifle.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.126
Sometimes he
explodes over a
trifle.
31.
Sometimes he
is a source of embarrassment ...
BB
To Wives, p.109
Sometimes he is a
source of
embarrassment to you and his
friends.
32.
Sometimes he
will be so interested that ...
BB
To Wives, p.119
33.
... sometimes hide
out in one of the ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
I would
sometimes hide out in
one of the
clubs of which I was a
member,
and had the
habit at
times of
registering at a
hotel
under a
fictitious name.
34.
... sometimes hours
spent in self-examination are bound ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.89
35.
... sometimes hurt
those we love because they ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.94
We
sometimes hurt those we
love because they
need to be "
taught a
lesson," when we
really want to
punish.
36.
Sometimes I
stole from my wife's slender ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.6
Sometimes I
stole from my
wife's
slender purse when the
morning terror and
madness were on me.
37.
Sometimes I
would bring it in my ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
Sometimes I would
bring it in
my
pockets, but they were
inspected, and that
became
too
risky.
38.
... sometimes impossible
to persuade an alcoholic to ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.18
39.
Sometimes it's
because God has not delivered ...
12&12
Step Two, p.31
40.
Sometimes it
is to the best interests ...
BB
Working With Others, p.99
Sometimes it is to the
best interests of all
concerned that a
couple remain apart.
41.
Sometimes it
is wise to wait till ...
BB
Working With Others, p.90
Sometimes it is
wise to
wait till he
goes on a
binge.
42.
Sometimes it
was remorse and then we ...
BB
How It Works, p.66
Sometimes it was
remorse and
then we were
sore at
ourselves.
43.
... sometimes kept
such a man at work ...
BB
To Employers, p.137
44.
... sometimes let
us down, especially when our ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
45.
... sometimes more
durable, satisfactions when the brighter, ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
46.
Sometimes mother
and children don't think so.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.126
Sometimes mother and
children don't
think so.
47.
... sometimes nearly
drove me back to drink, ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.15
48.
... sometimes our
drinking will be used politically.
BB
To Employers, p.145
49.
... sometimes outside
interference in our affairs.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.161
50.
... sometimes poles
apart.
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.174
51.
... sometimes praise
what we are doing and ...
BB
Into Action, p.78
Our
former enemies sometimes praise what we are
doing and
wish us
well.
52.
... sometimes quickly,
sometimes slowly.
BB
Into Action, p.84
They are
being fulfilled
among us --
sometimes quickly,
sometimes slowly.
53.
... sometimes quite
forgotten, damaging emotional conflicts persist ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.79
54.
... sometimes quite
unconscious of this, the result ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
Though we were
sometimes quite unconscious of this,
the
result always had been
the
same.
55.
... sometimes reflected
more than Jim did upon ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.37
We have
sometimes reflected
more than
Jim did
upon the
consequences.
56.
... sometimes say
she is neglected.
BB
Working With Others, p.97
Your
wife may
sometimes say she is
neglected.
57.
... sometimes seem
to be within us, and ...
12&12
Step Four, p.52
These
stem from
causes which
sometimes seem to be
within us, and at
other times to
come from
without.
58.
... sometimes seen
families broken apart by misunderstanding, ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
59.
... sometimes select
and memorize a few set ...
BB
Into Action, p.87
60.
... sometimes serious
leak.
BB
To Employers, p.148
61.
... sometimes shocked
when we burst into merriment ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.132
62.
... sometimes singled
out for posts of greater ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
63.
... sometimes slowly.
BB
Into Action, p.84
They are
being fulfilled
among us --
sometimes quickly,
sometimes slowly.
64.
... sometimes still
is -- are such activities to ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.170
65.
... sometimes surprise
us.
BB
Into Action, p.78
66.
... sometimes thankless
privilege of doing the group's ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.134
Theirs is the
sometimes thankless privilege of
doing the
group's
chores.
67.
... sometimes the
good is the enemy of ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.138
'
Bill, haven't you
often said right here in this
meeting that
sometimes the
good is the
enemy of the
best?
68.
Sometimes the
man we are calling upon ...
BB
Into Action, p.78
69.
... sometimes the
model of honesty when normal, ...
BB
To Employers, p.140
70.
Sometimes the
swarming applicants would go for ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.148
Sometimes the
swarming applicants would
go for all
three floors.
71.
Sometimes there
are cases where alcoholism is ...
BB
To Wives, p.114
72.
Sometimes there
were other women.
BB
To Wives, p.106
Sometimes there were
other women.
73.
Sometimes there
were screaming delirium and insanity.
BB
To Wives, p.107
Sometimes there were
screaming delirium and
insanity.
74.
Sometimes these
excuses have a certain plausibility, ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.23
75.
... sometimes they
are distressingly acute.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.117
76.
Sometimes they
demand that dad bring them ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.123
Sometimes they
demand that
dad bring them
back instantly!
77.
Sometimes, they
got distressingly drunk and let ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.185
Sometimes, they
got distressingly drunk and
let their
groups down with a
bang.
78.
Sometimes they
hurt us, seemingly without provocation, ...
BB
How It Works, p.62
79.
Sometimes they
were so inaccessible that it ...
BB
To Wives, p.107
Sometimes they were so
inaccessible that it
seemed as
though a
great wall had been
built around them.
80.
... sometimes this
results in rebuffs and other ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
81.
Sometimes this
was a tedious process; we ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.48
Sometimes this was a
tedious
process; we
hope no one else will be
prejudiced for as
long as some of us were.
82.
... sometimes to
pronounce his death sentence.
12&12
Contents (Tradition Three), p.10
83.
... sometimes to
pronounce his death sentence, and ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.141
84.
... sometimes to
Wednesday evening prayer meeting.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
85.
... sometimes today's
excesses of negative emotion -- anger, ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.88
86.
... sometimes tragic
things.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.132
We have been
speaking to you of
serious,
sometimes tragic things.
87.
... sometimes used
their shortcomings as a basis ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
88.
Sometimes we
alcoholics have an idea that ...
BB
To Employers, p.145
Sometimes we
alcoholics
have an
idea that
people are
trying to
pull us
down.
89.
Sometimes we
had to search fearlessly, but ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
Sometimes we had to
search fearlessly, but He was there.
90.
Sometimes we
hear an alcoholic say that ...
BB
Into Action, p.82
Sometimes we
hear an
alcoholic say that the only
thing he
needs to do is to
keep sober.
91.
Sometimes we
sensed dimly that we were ...
BB
To Wives, p.107
Sometimes we
sensed dimly that we were
dealing with
sick men.
92.
Sometimes we
think fear ought to be ...
BB
How It Works, p.67
Sometimes we
think fear ought to be
classed with
stealing.
93.
Sometimes we
took a slightly different tack.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.97
94.
... sometimes were
responsible for the whole pattern ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.80
We can
go far beyond those things which were
superficially wrong with
us, to
see those flaws which were
basic,
flaws which
sometimes were
responsible for the
whole
pattern of our
lives.
95.
... sometimes wiser
and more humble than this.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.133
True,
founders and their
friends are
sometimes wiser and
more humble than this.
96.
... sometimes you
must start life anew.
BB
To Wives, p.114
But
sometimes you
must start life anew.
97.
Sometimes you
will have to call a ...
BB
Working With Others, p.97
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