His mother had stepped in to fill the embarrassed silence.

His mother stepped back too, and then turned to look at him standing there on the porch.

Whose mother still steps behind the house to throttle a chicken for Sunday dinner?

From the bushes at the side of the path stepped his mother.

His mother stepped outside to talk with a friend in front of the mission recently and William did not know where she was.

And then the mother stepped forward to be the alibi.

His mother stepped into the room, her concern turning to fear.

One early relationship was so destructive that her mother stepped in to end it.

His mother stepped in between the two and ended the fight, they said.

The mother reached down, picked up a loose rock, and stepped forward to do the same.