"placed" in the Big Book

My brother-in-law is a physician, and through his kindness and that of my mother I was placed in a nationally-known hospital for the mental and physical rehabilitation of alcoholics.

I placed myself unreservedly under His care and direction.

How often have some of us begun to drink in this nonchalant way, and after the third or fourth, pounded on the bar and said to ourselves, “For God’s sake, how did I ever get started again?’’ Only to have that thought supplanted by “Well, I’ll stop with the sixth drink.’’ Or “What’s the use anyhow?’’ When this sort of thinking is fully established in an individual with alcoholic tendencies, he has probably placed himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane.

Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.

We placed them before us in black and white.

We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality—safe and protected.

Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.

He has been placed in one institution after another.

Perhaps they created the impression that he is to be wrapped in cotton wool and placed on a pedestal.

Dad may feel that for years his drinking has placed him on the wrong side of every argument, but that now he has become a superior person with God on his side.

he could not, for his drinking placed him constantly in the wrong.

After two weeks of drinking, he had placed his toe on the trigger of a loaded shotgun—the barrel was in his mouth.

Your man will fare better if placed in such physical condition that he can think straight and no longer craves liquor.

One man and his wife placed their large home at the disposal of this strangely assorted crowd.