And if we had more police out doing their jobs, this sort of thing wouldn't happen.

This sort of thing has never happened to me before.

This sort of thing had happened to her before, though.

Yet the same sort of thing had happened in his day.

I wanted to make sure this sort of thing never happened again without our knowledge.

As a teacher, you've seen this sort of thing happen in various ways to people more often than I have.

That sort of thing did really happen down there, you know.

This sort of thing never happened in the old days.

Perhaps this sort of thing happened all the time, I thought.

This sort of thing has happened to me many times.