1.   First the owner starts to stroke the cat, tickle its ear, or gently rub its head.

2.   Luisa reached out her hand to stroke the cat.

3.   Carla, curled up on the sofa, was smoking a cigarette and stroking her cat.

4.   He sat up and stroked the cat gently, scratching between the backs of its ears, making Bonaventure purr with pleasure.

5.   He thinks a moment, stroking the cat.

6.   Ms. Basin said her friend could not resist touching and stroking her cat whenever she visited.

7.   The human hand can stroke a cat,