From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... took a
drink a day or so ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
They took a drink a day or so prior to the date, and then the phenomenon of craving at
once became paramount to all other interests so that the important appointment
was not met.
2.
... took a
long time.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
3.
... took a
long time.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
4.
... took a
night law course, and obtained ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
5.
... took a
slightly different tack.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
6.
... took form
and were first published in ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
It was out of this vast welter of explosive experience that A.A.'s Twelve Traditions took form and were first published in 1946 and later confirmed at A.A.'s First International Convention, held at Cleveland in 1950.
7.
... took full
advantage of this attitude to ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
8.
... took him
out of town.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
9.
... took in
those odd ones, what would ...
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
10.
... took inventory.
BB p.76,
Into Action
11.
... took inventory
all right, but hung on ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
12.
... took inventory,
we began to suspect how ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
13.
... took it
piecemeal myself.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
14.
... took its
name.
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
15.
... took me
about Wall Street and little ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
16.
... took me
only a relatively short time ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I drank with moderation
at first, but it took me only
a relatively short time to drift back into the old habits which had wound up so disastrously before.
17.
... took nothing,
their self-pity made them killjoys.
BB p.105,
To Wives
18.
... took other
simple steps.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
As soon as we admitted the
possible existence of
a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit
of the Universe underlying the totality
of things, we began to be
possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we
took other simple steps.
19.
... took shape
at New York, to be ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
A second small group promptly took shape at New York, to be followed in 1937 with the start of a third at Cleveland.
20.
... took sides
on this question.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
21.
... took some
drinks, he might not have ...
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Unless he took some drinks, he might not have the courage to scrape an acquaintance and would have a lonely week-end.
22.
... took stock
honestly.
BB p.64,
How It Works
23.
... took such
a position, all sorts of ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
24.
... took that
first drink than you have.
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
And the truth, strange to
say, is usually that he has
no more idea why he took that first drink than you have.
25.
... took the
bull by the horns and ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
One morning he took the bull by the horns and set out to tell those he feared what his trouble had been.
26.
... took the
children home to father and ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
27.
... took the
first drink, thereby setting the ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
These observations would be academic and pointless
if our friend never took the first drink, thereby setting the terrible cycle in motion.
28.
... took this
violent new tack because here ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
We took this violent new tack because here and there members had tried to make money out of their A.A. connections, and we feared we'd be exploited.
29.
... took time
to pass it on to ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
30.
... took up
a sheaf of papers.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
31.
... took up
the business of drinking with ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
32.
... took us
to their homes, making us ...
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
War fever ran high in the New England town to which we new, young officers from Plattsburg were assigned, and we were flattered when the first citizens took us to their homes, making us feel heroic.
33.
... took, which
are suggested as a program ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
34.
... took years
of harrowing experience.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
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