Example sentences of "would have [verb] a lesser [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pain would have killed a lesser being but Aenarion had passed through the fire of Asuryan and agony could not slow him . |
| 2 | She went , with a glare at Luke Denner that would have turned a lesser man to stone . |
| 3 | Somehow containing her fury , she flashed him a smile that would have made a lesser man shrivel . |
| 4 | Luke Calder sat down on the settee , pulling Fran down next to him as he favoured her with a smile that would have made a lesser woman fall in a grateful little heap at his feet . |
| 5 | And , after two weeks that would have cracked a lesser man , Taylor proved he still has what it takes to ensure that England can qualify to be one of the outside contenders . |
| 6 | A recalcitrant refrigerator , an aching back , an eye stinging with pain , a wailing cat , any of these would have sapped a lesser woman 's determination . |
| 7 | The traumas of Argentina would have dampened a lesser spirit than Bud 's . |