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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
TURNED occurs
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1.
... turned.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
You
need this
information to
put yourself in his place, to see how you would like him
to
approach you if the
tables were
turned.
2.
... turned away and walked down the lobby ...
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
With a
shiver, he
turned
away and
walked down the
lobby to the
church directory.
3.
... turned away from us, bored or hurt.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Of
course, people
turned
away from us,
bored or
hurt.
4.
... turned back to the list, for it ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
We
turned back to the
list,
for it
held the
key to the
future.
5.
... turned into all-time losers.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
We who had
won so
handsomely in a
walk turned into all-
time losers.
6.
... turned into great values.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
If our
circumstances happened to be
good, we no
longer dreaded a
change for the
worse, for we
had
learned that these
troubles could be
turned into
great values.
7.
... turned into physical and mental liabilities.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
8.
... turned our will and our lives over ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
Consequently, in
Step
Three we
turned our will and
our
lives over to the
care of
God as we
understood Him.
9.
... turned out to be the Akron physician.
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
That
alcoholic turned out
to be the
Akron physician.
10.
... turned people against us.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We had to see that every
time we
played the
big shot, we
turned people against
us.
11.
... turned people from us.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
It
frequently turned
people from us.
12.
... turned Pharisee, have sulked.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
13.
... turned to alcohol.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
I was very
lonely and again
turned to
alcohol.
14.
... turned to easier methods.
BB p.72,
Into Action
15.
... turned to good use by those who ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
We
know this because we see
monotony,
pain, and even
calamity turned to
good use by those who
keep on
trying to
practice A.A.'s
Twelve Steps.
16.
... turned up.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
After several
failures to find others, a
fourth turned up.
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