I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a piece/stroke of luck (= something good that happens by chance )
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What a piece of luck that he arrived when he did!
a stroke of genius (= a very clever idea )
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At the time, his appointment seemed a stroke of genius.
at/on the stroke of midnight (= at exactly midnight )
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The treaty will come into force on the stroke of midnight tonight.
ground stroke
massive stroke/heart attack etc
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He suffered a massive stroke.
stroke a cat
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Our cat won't let you stroke it.
stroke/rub your chin (= stroke it in a way that shows you are thinking about something )
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He stroked his chin and then seemed to come to a decision.
suffer a heart attack/stroke
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He died after suffering a massive heart attack.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bold
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Mr Major has taken plenty of decisions - Norman Lamont's budget was full of bold strokes .
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Hess's synthesis was a bold stroke of intuition.
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One or two more bold strokes of the pen could wrap it up for Kenny!
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A single bold stroke can not resolve political difficulties as fundamental as those Mondale faced and Dole now confronts.
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Dole can opt for some one out of the blue, making a bold stroke and hoping to demonstrate a spirit of adventure.
broad
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All the orchestral music from 1784 onwards is conceived in broader strokes , while the solo parts become ever more complex.
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The broadest strokes of that blueprint are already in place.
long
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He used small gouges to carve little tufts of fur with long , controlled strokes , following the marked lines.
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Shave legs with long smooth strokes from ankle to knee and from knee to thigh.
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He says that you must start on the triangle and continue in long strokes .
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Return to the long stroke with which you began in Step 1.
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The Veronese prefer a longer , Gothic stroke .
massive
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He died suddenly of another massive stroke three and a half years after his original illness.
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In April 1991, ten months after reelection, Molly suffered a massive stroke that incapacitated her for months.
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But I am sorry to tell you that he passed away on after a massive stroke .
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Bill Dailey, 54, a bartender at the downtown Radisson Hotel, also bounded back from a massive stroke .
short
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Start at your palms with soft, short strokes and brush towards the heart.
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To apply, stretch your eyelid until it is taut, and line with a series of short , connected strokes .
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In the plane of the sunlit grass, for example, the paint is applied in short strokes laid over one another.
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The short flats are good for this; they are also useful for blocking in colour and for short strokes .
single
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At a single stroke of fate, Mikhail Vologsky was nothing, with only uncertainty to look forward to.
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A single bold stroke can not resolve political difficulties as fundamental as those Mondale faced and Dole now confronts.
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The recognition of cursive script is much more difficult because several characters can be written with a single stroke .
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Each path was only a single stroke , as in a pencil rubbing from a leaf.
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These strokes are very much more effective than single strokes.
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Eddie won by a single stroke only after a back nine countback.
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The evolution of such a plant could not have been achieved at a single stroke .
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A macro is a string of instructions executed with a single key stroke .
■ NOUN
brush
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Her brush strokes mimic the uncertainty.
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Every brush stroke told a story.
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From the corner of my eye, I saw my frightened cousins obediently practicing their first brush strokes .
paddle
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The current classic paddle strokes are fine in certain circumstance but there are other occasions when different techniques are needed.
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Having defined our new paddle stroke we need to check it.
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A paddle stroke is like any other model or diagram which is used to pass on information.
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Compare this map with the forward sweep paddle stroke that we teach in the Star tests.
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Like the map, the taught sweep paddle stroke is unlike the real sweep stroke but still very useful.
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Our new paddle stroke is therefore probably correct.
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The real stroke and the paddle stroke will drift apart in style over the years.
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We now need to respond to this change by adopting a new forward paddle stroke when coaching in shorter boats.
patient
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We acknowledge that stroke patients may be classified in the progressive or non-progressive disorder category.
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Surprisingly, the language problems produced by other forms of damage do not necessarily follow these principles derived from stroke patients .
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Those available will be busy rehabilitating stroke patients , who take priority.
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He had been caring for a stroke patient who seemed to understand much of what was said to him.
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The care of stroke patients involves a plethora of different health and social care workers.
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A 75-year-old stroke patient died there last December when he fell from a trolley outside the casualty unit.
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These studies are intended to describe precisely the types of difficulty in recognising faces experienced by some stroke patients .
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It may also help to boost the spirits and is used in the care of stroke patients who are left feeling despondent.
penalty
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He saved a penalty stroke from Simon Dawson six minutes from the end of normal time.
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Green scored from a penalty stroke and a fine open-play goal before Yvonne Ayshford got Midlands' consolation goal almost on time.
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The changes proved successful and Gregs won an early, though dubious, penalty stroke .
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They won Saturday's game 1-0, Vickey Dixon scoring from a penalty stroke .
victim
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Mrs thomas, a stroke victim who walked with the aid of a zimmer frame, collapsed and died just after.
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Some stroke victims recover on their own; the study will determine how many, and whether mo re recover on tPA.
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Later Caroline specialised in Special Needs classes and introduced the first class to help stroke victims .
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Members are involved in Cambuslang with a club for stroke victims .
■ VERB
die
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Frail Kathleen Lillyman, 61, died of a stroke after Raymond Oxborough's attack.
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On 10 April 1911 Ras Tasamma, the Regent, died of a stroke .
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But the funeral of Mr Whitelaw, who died of a stroke , will go ahead as planned today.
play
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DeFreitas played a daffy stroke: he tried to pull one from Cairns which was not short enough.
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He had already blown his chances and perhaps that was why he played a relaxed stroke .
suffer
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The rebel Duke had suffered five strokes of the axe.
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It was always at this point that Takat seemed to suffer a stroke .
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Early in 1934 she suffered a stroke and died 10 January peacefully in her sleep.
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Mr Kelly, who had suffered strokes in 1994 and 1995, died in his sleep, his publicist said.
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Some people's behaviour changes after they have suffered a stroke .
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In April 1991, ten months after reelection, Molly suffered a massive stroke that incapacitated her for months.
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He's suffered 3 strokes in the last year and chose one of the wettest days of autumn to have a go.
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King Fahd, 73, suffered a mild stroke in November.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
oblique line/stroke etc
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Also it should be lit at night and have traffic cones placed in an oblique line on the approach to it.
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The apparent movement of both the lion and the Cupids along an imaginary, oblique line is largely responsible for this effect.
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The gill openings were arranged in an oblique line as in lampreys.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Aspin died suddenly of a stroke .
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He paints the pictures with a series of quick strokes.
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If we talked back to the teacher, we got two strokes on the palm.
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the back stroke
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The most complex Chinese character contains 64 strokes.
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With our first paddle strokes, the canoe started moving rapidly down the river.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But this latest phase has now also emboldened Bush to press forward with his agenda in strong, conservative strokes.
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The stroke that brought my father down was enveloped in its own ironies.
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The next stroke is called pulling, and is done along the sides of the body.
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We all long for the grand stroke that will turn schools around and suddenly solve all our problems.
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What is temporary paralysis in half the face next to the crippling paralysis of a stroke ?
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
gently
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However, by patient wheedling and soft talk I managed to touch her and gently stroked her cheek with one finger.
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Late one night I stirred from a deep sleep to find Dad sitting beside my bed, gently stroking my hair.
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With the other he gently stroked his hair.
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Gently stroke the entire face with gentle upward movements as in Step 4. 14.
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She saw he was nervous, and encouraged him by gently stroking his neck and shoulders.
■ NOUN
arm
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As Pamela walked towards them Tim stroked his wife's arm in a long, slow, sensual gesture.
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She strokes her arm , pats her shoulder, smiles up at her.
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I stroked her arms and her back.
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Tiny hands stroked his arms and began to explore his outer pockets.
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At one point I began stroking his arm to slow him down.
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I stroke his arm and I notice the hairs are raised in their follicles.
ball
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And he remained ice cool to stroke the ball home with his renowned touch of arrogance.
beard
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The MI5 man pondered for a moment and stroked his beard .
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That at least made Pinkus stroke his beard again.
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He laughed a bit and stroked his beard a bit.
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Exactly, White answers, stroking his beard .
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Tait stroked his beard again with long, elegant fingers, appraising her with colourless eyes.
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He stroked his beard and then scratched irritably through it.
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He stroked at his beard for a second.
cat
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Why does a cat sometimes bite the hand that strokes it?
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First the owner starts to stroke the cat , tickle its ear, or gently rub its head.
cheek
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However, by patient wheedling and soft talk I managed to touch her and gently stroked her cheek with one finger.
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I stroke her lifeless cheek , and as I do the deep purple bruises seem to fade a little.
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She was stroking Louis's cheek and whispering to him reassuringly.
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Mary had spent a little time in close conversation with him and even stroked his cheek at one stage.
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When he rolled away from her, she idly pulled a frond of fern and stroked it down his cheek .
chin
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She reached up and stroked his chin .
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Derek began to stroke his double chin .
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He began thoughtfully stroking his chin .
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Cantor slowly stroked his chin while staring at Stafford.
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Lufkin stroked his chin , as if contemplating her request.
ego
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The strange thing is that we often offer ego stroking to those we love, but forget to do it for ourselves!
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The Ego likes to be stroked .
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Feeding and nurturing comes next and we can call these the ego stroking exercises.
face
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She stroked his face , traced his strongly-curved lips with her finger, and kissed him lightly.
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They come to me and sit down on my bed, singing songs and stroking my face .
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Tallis went to the makeshift corral and let the animal out, stroking her bruised face , patting her flanks.
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Gently stroke the entire face with gentle upward movements as in Step 4. 14.
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The man stroked her face and hair, soothed her whimpering, kissed her bruises, shushed in her ear.
finger
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Something like a rough finger stroked the back of her neck.
forehead
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She stroked Anna's forehead , as much to quieten her own resentment as to soothe Anna.
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He sat on the stool at the head of the bed and stroked my forehead and my hair.
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I stroke Timmy's forehead more and more lightly, until I am stroking empty air.
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She would get really worried and stroke my forehead and plead with me not to talk about dying.
fur
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We watched as Christopher's expression changed slowly from shock to amazement to joy as he stroked the animal's fur .
hair
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Fingers ran through her hair , stroked her throat, gently probed her mouth.
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There was lots of kissing and hair-stroking going on, which always makes onlookers feel rather frigid and inadequate.
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He felt his hair being stroked and opened both eyes.
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She felt the comfort of his hand against her hair , stroking back the curls.
hand
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Her hands stroked the silk of his skin with bold pleasure.
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He was starting to feel nervous; his hands stroked the steering wheel.
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Ludens knew that Patrick longed to touch Marcus, to hold his hand , to stroke his sleeve, but dared not.
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He flexed his hand and stroked a talon across his own forearm.
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She took him in her hand , stroked him.
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Her eyes flew open as Roman kissed her again, his hands stroking the soft shoulders, revealed by her scanty nightdress.
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His hand was stroking a rug flung over the stable door.
head
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I shift myself a stair higher, so that I can reach up and stroke my son's head .
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Maggie crooned to him and stroked his head .
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I would stroke his head and hand to let him know I was lying there beside him.
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I half hope he's awake, so that I can go in and sit with him, and stroke his head .
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I should stroke his head , but how can I do a thing like that?
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With my other hand I stroked his head , the side of his face.
neck
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Instead, she stroked his neck and then closed her hand very gently over him.
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One handler, cradling his bird in his arms, whispers to it and strokes its neck .
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Her jealous rage subsided; she stroked the horse's neck .
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She stroked its neck , led it away from the interested crowd and over to the grass.
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She saw he was nervous, and encouraged him by gently stroking his neck and shoulders.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ann took the baby in her arms and stroked his cheek.
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Figo stroked the ball over Martinez's head.
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He knew he had to tolerate Haley, stroke him some, and wait for his rage to subside.
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Her mother sat beside her and stroked her forehead until she fell asleep again.
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Miss Poole calmed herself by stroking the cat's fur.
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The old priest stroked his white beard as he listened.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He laughed a bit and stroked his beard a bit.
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Lyn stroked him and reminded him she would be back at lunchtime.