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... taken.
BB
Into Action, p.86
After making our review we ask God's forgiveness and inquire what corrective measures should be taken.
2.
... taken a
cure, looks fine, and to ...
BB
To Employers, p.138
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."
3.
... taken a
square look at some of ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.74
But when we have taken a square look at some of these defects, have discussed
them with another, and have become willing to have them removed, our thinking about
humility commences to
have a wider meaning.
4.
... taken action.
BB
Working With Others, p.94
Tell him you once felt as he does, but you doubt whether you would have made much progress had you not taken action.
5.
... taken alone,
wouldn't be enough.
12&12
Step Twelve, pp.107-108
6.
... taken, and
we have made peace with ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.89
When our inventory is carefully taken, and we have
made peace with ourselves, the conviction follows that tomorrow's challenges can
be met as they come.
7.
... taken as
a matter of course, the ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.128
As soon as his sobriety begins to be taken as a matter of course, the family may look at their strange new dad with apprehension, then
with irritation.
8.
... taken at
any time of the day, ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.89
There's the spot-check inventory, taken at any time of the day, whenever we find ourselves getting tangled up.
9.
... taken away.
BB
We Agnostics, p.56
10.
... taken from
the scrap heap to a ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.11
Then he had, in effect, been raised from the dead, suddenly taken from the scrap heap to a level of life better than the best he had ever known!
11.
... taken from
them.
12&12
Step Six, pp.67-68
Some people, of course, may
conclude that they are indeed ready to have all such defects taken from them.
12.
... taken from
us by so-called acts of ...
12&12
Step Two, p.31
13.
... taken grudgingly,
yet we do take them.
12&12
Step Seven, p.74
14.
... taken in
the midst of such disturbances ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.90
A spot-check inventory taken in the midst of such disturbances can be of very
great help in quieting stormy emotions.
15.
... taken, inevitably
set up a disastrous chain ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.164
Compared to this prospect, the ten thousand dollars under consideration
wasn't much, but like the alcoholic's first drink it would, if taken, inevitably set up a disastrous chain reaction.
16.
... taken it.
BB
Bill's Story, p.5
17.
... taken its
first step in the formation ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.142
18.
... taken out.
BB
Preface, p.xii
Six of the stories in Part II have been carried over, eleven new ones have been added, and eleven taken out.
19.
... taken over
by the mortgage holder, my ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.5
The house was taken over by the mortgage holder, my mother-in-law died, my wife and father-in-law became ill.
20.
... taken place.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xv
21.
... taken remarkable
and unexpected turns for the ...
12&12
Step Eleven, pp.104-105
Almost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken remarkable and unexpected turns for the better as he tried to improve his conscious contact with God.
22.
... taken root,
slowly at first, then growing ...
BB
Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
In country after country where the A.A. seed was planted, it has taken root, slowly at first, then growing by leaps and bounds when literature has
become available.
23.
Taken separately,
these practices can bring much ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.98
24.
... taken sides
on any question in an ...
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.176
25.
... taken steps
to see that I was ...
BB
To Employers, p.141
Had they fired me first, and
had they then taken steps to see that I was presented with
the solution contained
in this book, I might have returned to them six months later, a well man.
26.
... taken stock
of ourselves, made amends to ...
12&12
Step Two, p.32
In no deep or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves, made amends to those we had harmed, or freely given to any other human being without any demand for reward.
27.
... taken the
opposite tack and had insisted, ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
When we had taken the opposite tack and had insisted, like infants ourselves, that people protect and take care of us or that the world owed us a living, then the result had
been equally unfortunate.
28.
... taken these
satisfactions to be the final ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.71
Instead of regarding the
satisfaction of our material desires as the means by which we could live and
function as human beings, we had taken these satisfactions to be the final end and aim of life.
29.
... taken this
step, withholding nothing, we are ...
BB
Into Action, p.75
30.
... taken very
hard knocks to learn this ...
BB
Working With Others, p.98
Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job --
wife or no wife -- we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.
31.
... taken you,
if I had been able ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.43
Had you offered yourselves as patients at
this hospital, I would not have taken you, if I had been able to avoid it.
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