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1.
  ... very acme of humility.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.149
Even the chief architect, standing in the ruins of his dream, could laugh at himself -- and that is the very acme of humility.


2.
  ... very ancient.  12&12 Step Five, p.56
This practice of admitting one's defects to another person is, of course, very ancient.


3.
  ... very anxious that we talk to the ...  BB Into Action, p.74
We say this because we are very anxious that we talk to the right person.


4.
  ... very bad, and that ended the beer ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.178
Of course, the result was very bad, and that ended the beer experiment.


5.
  ... very bad effect on him, too.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.166
When an A.A. talks for money, whether at a meeting or to a single newcomer, it can have a very bad effect on him, too.


6.
  ... very bad time of it in our ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
Humility, as a word and as an ideal, has a very bad time of it in our world.


7.
  ... very badly, I said, "Let's make the ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
Wishing to be polite, though I felt very badly, I said, "Let's make the call," and extracted from my wife a promise that we would not stay over fifteen minutes.


8.
  ... very beginning that we must never, no ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.176
As by some deep instinct, we A.A.'s have known from the very beginning that we must never, no matter what the provocation, publicly take sides in any fight, even a worthy one.


9.
  ... very beginning, the couple ought to frankly ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
At the very beginning, the couple ought to frankly face the fact that each will have to yield here and there if the family is going to play an effective part in the new life.


10.
  ... very best sense of the word.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
This is Twelfth Step work in the very best sense of the word.


11.
  ... very best we know or can learn.  12&12 Step Six, p.65
The key words "entirely ready" underline the fact that we want to aim at the very best we know or can learn.


12.
  ... very best will do!'  12&12 Tradition Two, p.138
This is a matter of life and death, Bill, and nothing but the very best will do!'


13.
  ... very big coin.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
Somehow it looked like a very big coin.


14.
  ... very careful not to criticize them.  BB Into Action, p.83
We ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we now see it, being very careful not to criticize them.


15.
  ... very character defects they themselves were trying ...  12&12 Step Five, p.56
They will tell how they tried to carry the load alone; how much they suffered of irritability, anxiety, remorse, and depression; and how, unconsciously seeking relief, they would sometimes accuse even their best friends of the very character defects they themselves were trying to conceal.


16.
  ... very complete and literal way, all A.A.'s ...  12&12 Step Six, p.64
So in a very complete and literal way, all A.A.'s have "become entirely ready" to have God remove the mania for alcohol from their lives.


17.
  ... very curious to know how you got ...  BB Working With Others, pp.92-93
Even though your protégé may not have entirely admitted his condition, he has become very curious to know how you got well.


18.
  ... very dangerous, especially to your husband.  BB To Wives, p.117
These family dissensions are very dangerous, especially to your husband.


19.
  ... very dearly physically and, in hope of ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
By this time I was beginning to pay very dearly physically and, in hope of relief, voluntarily incarcerated myself at least a dozen times in one of the local sanitariums.


20.
  Very deep, sometimes quite forgotten, damaging emotional ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
Very deep, sometimes quite forgotten, damaging emotional conflicts persist below the level of consciousness.


21.
  ... very defects the objectionable questions are concerned ...  12&12 Step Four, p.53
To these it can be suggested that a conscientious examination is likely to reveal the very defects the objectionable questions are concerned with.


22.
  ... very desirable to take this spiritual step ...  BB How It Works, p.63
We found it very desirable to take this spiritual step with an understanding person, such as our wife, best friend, or spiritual adviser.


23.
  ... very deviations created a vast process of ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.146
These very deviations created a vast process of trial and error which, under the grace of God, has brought us to where we stand today.


24.
  ... very devil.  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
Members of a family should watch such matters carefully, for one careless, inconsiderate remark has been known to raise the very devil.


25.
  ... very different from ours.  BB There Is A Solution, p.20
We see that these expressions refer to people whose reactions are very different from ours.


26.
  ... very different occasion, and in sharp contrast ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.84
This will be a very different occasion, and in sharp contrast with those hangover mornings when we alternated between reviling ourselves and blaming the family (and everyone else) for our troubles.


27.
  ... very different snag.  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
Some of us, though, tripped over a very different snag.


28.
  ... very different voice.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
Then one of the three spoke in a very different voice.


29.
  ... very drunk, unless he is ugly and ...  BB Working With Others, p.90
Don't deal with him when he is very drunk, unless he is ugly and the family needs your help.


30.
  ... very dubious and improbable state of affairs.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
To new A.A.'s, this often seems like a very dubious and improbable state of affairs.


31.
  ... very early group, those scores have since ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
Since this was a very early group, those scores have since multiplied themselves into thousands.


32.
  ... very early in the morning shaking violently.  BB Bill's Story, p.5
This went on endlessly, and I began to waken very early in the morning shaking violently.


33.
  Very earnestly we ask the press also, ...  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
Very earnestly we ask the press also, to observe this request, for otherwise we shall be greatly handicapped.


34.
  ... very easy!  12&12 Step Six, p.69
He could say, "How very easy!


35.
  ... very encouraging news for those who recoil ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.105
All this should be very encouraging news for those who recoil from prayer because they don't believe in it, or because they feel themselves cut off from God's help and direction.


36.
  ... very enjoyable.  12&12 Step Six, p.67
Self-righteous anger also can be very enjoyable.


37.
  ... very expensive.  BB To Employers, p.143
In competent hands, this seldom takes long nor is it very expensive.


38.
  ... very far advanced, there is scant chance ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.34
If he is a real alcoholic and very far advanced, there is scant chance of success.


39.
  ... very few A.A.'s have ever worked the ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.166
This has always been so obvious that only a very few A.A.'s have ever worked the Twelfth Step for a fee.


40.
  ... very few years they had completely lost ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
When the Washingtonians became temperance crusaders, within a very few years they had completely lost their effectiveness in helping alcoholics.


41.
  ... very first attempt at a mood, a ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.101
This much could be a fragment of what is called meditation, perhaps our very first attempt at a mood, a flier into the realm of spirit, if you like.


42.
  ... very first case, a desperate one, recovered ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
Their very first case, a desperate one, recovered immediately and became A.A. number three.


43.
  ... very foolish and that I had better ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
When I got the fog out of my brain, I decided that quitting school was very foolish and that I had better return and continue my work.


44.
  ... very form of faulty dependence has caused ...  12&12 Step Three, p.38
This very form of faulty dependence has caused many a rebellious alcoholic to conclude that dependence of any sort must be intolerably damaging.


45.
  ... very good causes and all connected with ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.170
For this reason, some very good causes and all connected with them suffered unjust criticism from A.A. groups.


46.
  ... very good, in his case they did ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.27
This hope, however, was destroyed by the doctor's telling him that while his religious convictions were very good, in his case they did not spell the necessary vital spiritual experience.


47.
  ... very good indeed, but it is bound ...  12&12 Step Three, p.39
More sobriety brought about by the admission of alcoholism and by attendance at a few meetings is very good indeed, but it is bound to be a far cry from permanent sobriety and a contented, useful life.


48.
  ... very good ones.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
On the whole these marriages are very good ones.


49.
  ... very good question indeed.  12&12 Step Two, p.26
"That," agrees the sponsor, "is a very good question indeed.


50.
  Very gradually, and usually without any realization ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.118
Very gradually, and usually without any realization of the fact, the wife is forced to become the mother of an erring boy.


51.
  ... very gradually began to infiltrate my life.  12&12 Step Two, p.27
Right there, Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life.


52.
  ... very great help in quieting stormy emotions.  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.


53.
  ... very great one, was felt at once.  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.


54.
  ... very happy.  BB To Wives, p.117
If you and your husband find a solution for the pressing problem of drink you are, of course, going to be very happy.


55.
  ... very happy.  BB A Vision For You, p.156
At midnight he came home exhausted, but very happy.


56.
  ... very happy and secure ourselves.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.115
Where people had temporarily let us run their lives as though they were still children, we had felt very happy and secure ourselves.


57.
  ... very happy homes.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.117
Most married folks in A.A. have very happy homes.


58.
  ... very happy results do follow.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
With clear understanding and right, grown-up attitudes, very happy results do follow.


59.
  ... very hard, either.  12&12 Step Two, p.26
You won't have to work at it very hard, either.


60.
  ... very hard knocks to learn this truth: ...  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.


61.
  ... very hard lesson that overdependence upon people ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.115
We had refused to learn the very hard lesson that overdependence upon people is unsuccessful because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our demands for attention become unreasonable.


62.
  ... very healthy.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.178
They spoke with great freedom from embarrassment, which I could never do, and they seemed very much at ease on all occasions and appeared very healthy.


63.
  ... very healthy slice of the profits.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
I'll give you an office, a decent drawing account, and a very healthy slice of the profits.


64.
  ... very high opinion of humility as a ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
We may still have no very high opinion of humility as a desirable personal virtue, but we do recognize it as a necessary aid to our survival.


65.
  ... very high spiritual development almost always insist ...  12&12 Step Five, p.60
It is worth noting that people of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or spiritual advisers the guidance they feel they have received from God.


66.
  ... very human aspirations, we believe that each ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.187
As we lay aside these very human aspirations, we believe that each of us takes part in the weaving of a protective mantle which covers our whole Society and under which we may grow and work in unity.


67.
  ... very ill.  BB Working With Others, p.89
Remember they are very ill.


68.
  ... very ill.  BB To Wives, p.108
When he angers you, remember that he is very ill.


69.
  ... very ill from drinking.  BB There Is A Solution, p.20
You may already have asked yourself why it is that all of us became so very ill from drinking.


70.
  ... very image.  BB A Vision For You, p.157
"Yes, that's me," said the sick man, "the very image.


71.
  ... very important question.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
The agenda discussion included a very important question.


72.
  ... "Very interesting.  BB To Employers, p.138
His comment was, "Very interesting.


73.
  ... very jittery or befogged.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
Though we work out our solution on the spiritual as well as an altruistic plane, we favor hospitalization for the alcoholic who is very jittery or befogged.


74.
  ... very large group of people who have ...  12&12 Step Two, p.27
Here's a very large group of people who have solved their alcohol problem.


75.
  ... very large order.  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
This is a very large order.


76.
  ... very least, we shall have to come ...  12&12 Step Six, p.69
At the very least, we shall have to come to grips with some of our worst character defects and take action toward their removal as quickly as we can.


77.
  ... very life of our Fellowship requires the ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.150
The very life of our Fellowship requires the preservation of this principle.


78.
  ... very likely to entertain is one of ...  BB To Wives, p.118
Another feeling we are very likely to entertain is one of resentment that love and loyalty could not cure our husbands of alcoholism.


79.
  ... very little hope of his recovery.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.


80.
  ... very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.20
Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we may help meet their needs.


81.
  ... very lonely and again turned to alcohol.  BB Bill's Story, p.1
I was very lonely and again turned to alcohol.


82.
  ... very means I had been trying to ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
But this was a man who had experienced many years of frightful drinking, who had had most all the drunkard's experiences known to man, but who had been cured by the very means I had been trying to employ, that is to say the spiritual approach.


83.
  ... very mild ones at that.  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
But long ago, trustees and staff members alike found they could do no more than make suggestions, and very mild ones at that.


84.
  ... very much at ease on all occasions ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.178
They spoke with great freedom from embarrassment, which I could never do, and they seemed very much at ease on all occasions and appeared very healthy.


85.
  ... very much, but I thought it could ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.178
I learned that it was something of a spiritual nature, which did not appeal to me very much, but I thought it could do no harm.


86.
  ... very much the actor.  BB Into Action, p.73
He is very much the actor.


87.
  ... very nature, controversial.  BB There Is A Solution, p.19
We are aware that these matters are, from their very nature, controversial.


88.
  ... very nature of the situation we shall ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.83
There will be other cases where action ought to be deferred, and still others in which by the very nature of the situation we shall never be able to make direct personal contact at all.


89.
  ... very nervous in the morning after these ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
He was very nervous in the morning after these bouts and quieted himself with more liquor.


90.
  ... very night, years ago, it disappeared.  BB We Agnostics, p.56
That very night, years ago, it disappeared.


91.
  ... very obstinate and potentially fatal obsession.  12&12 Step Six, p.64
It is plain for everybody to see that each sober A.A. member has been granted a release from this very obstinate and potentially fatal obsession.


92.
  ... very often lie in preparing the way ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
Dr. Harry M. Tiebout, psychiatrist: "As a psychiatrist, I have thought a great deal about the relationship of my specialty to A.A. and I have come to the conclusion that our particular function can very often lie in preparing the way for the patient to accept any sort of treatment or outside help.


93.
  ... very pleasant surprise.  12&12 Step Five, p.61
Happily, though, the chances are that you will be in for a very pleasant surprise.


94.
  ... very practical approach to his problems, the ...  BB A Vision For You, p.160
The very practical approach to his problems, the absence of intolerance of any kind, the informality, the genuine democracy, the uncanny understanding which these people had were irresistible.


95.
  ... very precepts he knows so well.  BB Working With Others, p.93
Perhaps your story will help him see where he has failed to practice the very precepts he knows so well.


96.
  ... very problems on every side and in ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xix
Soon A.A. was beset by these very problems on every side and in every group.


97.
  ... very process by which the depressive has ...  12&12 Step Four, p.45
This is not a moral inventory at all; it is the very process by which the depressive has so often been led to the bottle and extinction.


98.
  ... very real.  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
These obstacles, however, are very real.


99.
  ... very real sense he has been transformed, ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.107
In a very real sense he has been transformed, because he has laid hold of a source of strength which, in one way or another, he had hitherto denied himself.


100.
  ... very remorseful at times, especially if he ...  BB Into Action, p.81
A man so involved often feels very remorseful at times, especially if he is married to a loyal and courageous girl who has literally gone through hell for him.


101.
  ... very rich.  BB Bill's Story, p.2
Many people lost money -- but some became very rich.


102.
  ... very room recently vacated by the lawyer.  BB A Vision For You, p.159
He consented, however, to go to the hospital, where he occupied the very room recently vacated by the lawyer.


103.
  ... very same defects, then where do we ...  12&12 Step Six, p.66
But when we face up to the less violent aspects of these very same defects, then where do we stand?


104.
  ... very same person who seemed doomed, who ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
On the other hand -- and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand -- once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules.


105.
  ... very seldom did I receive patients.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
During the subsequent fifteen years I had sense enough never to go to the hospital if I had been drinking, and very seldom did I receive patients.


106.
  ... very severe growing pains.  12&12 Foreword, p.17
This startling expansion brought with it very severe growing pains.


107.
  ... very sharply limited in its authority.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.134
In either case, the group now has a so-called rotating committee, very sharply limited in its authority.


108.
  ... very sick person.  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
Many do not comprehend that the alcoholic is a very sick person.


109.
  ... very sick person and should be treated ...  BB Working With Others, p.100
But urge upon a man's family that he has been a very sick person and should be treated accordingly.


110.
  ... very sick, unreasonable person.  BB To Wives, p.108
He is just another very sick, unreasonable person.


111.
  ... very simply that every A.A. group can ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.146
But in relation to us, it means very simply that every A.A. group can manage its affairs exactly as it pleases, except when A.A. as a whole is threatened.


112.
  ... very sincere when I made them.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
I used to promise my wife, my friends, and my children that I would drink no more -- promises which seldom kept me sober even through the day, though I was very sincere when I made them.


113.
  ... very slowly, savoring every word and trying ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
As beginners in meditation, we might now reread this prayer several times very slowly, savoring every word and trying to take in the deep meaning of each phrase and idea.


114.
  Very soon, though, his assumed authority to ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.133
Very soon, though, his assumed authority to run everything begins to be shared with the first alcoholics he has helped.


115.
  ... very special meaning.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.117
For those of us who were like that, A.A. had a very special meaning.


116.
  ... very spirit of Step Nine.  12&12 Step Nine, p.87
For the readiness to take the full consequences of our past acts, and to take responsibility for the well-being of others at the same time, is the very spirit of Step Nine.


117.
  ... very start.  BB How It Works, p.58
With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start.


118.
  ... very strange sensation.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
One year later he called to see me, and I experienced a very strange sensation.


119.
  ... very suspicious of everybody.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.152
He's had a bad case of D.T.'s, he's pretty foggy, and he's very suspicious of everybody.


120.
  ... very thing -- an oasis!  BB Bill's Story, p.9
The very thing -- an oasis!


121.
  ... very thing that all her years of ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.118
After the husband joins A.A., the wife may become discontented, even highly resentful that Alcoholics Anonymous has done the very thing that all her years of devotion had failed to do.


122.
  ... very thing that we had contemptuously condemned ...  12&12 Step Two, p.30
Self-righteousness, the very thing that we had contemptuously condemned in others, was our own besetting evil.


123.
  ... very thing which makes life seem so ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now.


124.
  ... very things, when such action is warranted.  BB Working With Others, p.98
Yet we do go to great extremes to provide each other with these very things, when such action is warranted.


125.
  ... very troublesome, we throw ourselves the harder ...  BB How It Works, p.70
If sex is very troublesome, we throw ourselves the harder into helping others.


126.
  Very truly yours, William D. Silkworth, M.D.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
Very truly yours, William D. Silkworth, M.D.


127.
  ... very unnatural situations may develop which work ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.117
When alcoholism strikes, very unnatural situations may develop which work against marriage partnership and compatible union.


128.
  ... very well.  BB How It Works, p.61
The show doesn't come off very well.


129.
  ... very well.  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
He is striving to recover fortune and reputation and feels he is doing very well.


130.
  ... very well play God to our fellows ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
If we really depended upon God, we couldn't very well play God to our fellows nor would we feel the urge wholly to rely on human protection and care.


131.
  ... very worst in those who didn't think ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
We've repeatedly strained the patience of our best friends to a snapping point, and have brought out the very worst in those who didn't think much of us to begin with.


132.
  ... very worst, we must be sure to ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.84
While we may be quite willing to reveal the very worst, we must be sure to remember that we cannot buy our own peace of mind at the expense of others.


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