The phrase "afterwards returning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something happens after a previous action, specifically referring to a return.
Example: "She went to the store, afterwards returning home with groceries."
Alternatives: "subsequently coming back" or "then returning".
Captivated, he followed them across the river to the door of a Left Bank apartment, afterwards returning to the building whenever his studies would allow.
Panorama actually started in 1953, but it went off air soon afterwards, returning in its now recognisable format in 1955 with Richard Dimbleby at the helm.
Clark was interned in Germany through the first world war; afterwards, returning to Britain, he joined the BBC's regional service at Newcastle as a conductor, then moved to London in 1927 as a programme planner.
We oscillate around this set point, becoming happier when something positive happens or the opposite, afterwards returning to equilibrium.
Probably be became much reduced in numbers in western Europe and his place was taken by transitional Aurignacian man who was nearing the modern type, having developed from an extension of the Neanderthal eastwards beyond central Europe, which afterwards returned westwards as Aurignacian man to the place of his Neanderthal forefathers.
Rogers had inscribed his book to "The Right Hon.ble The Lord Byron, from his obliged & faithful friend The Author", but the book was returned to him with the further inscription "Afterwards returned by Lord Byron to Mr. Rogers with the lines written on the other side".
The singer afterwards returned to Angelfish, which folded shortly later.
Lamb's ashes were afterwards returned to his relatives in Windsor, Ontario, where they were buried alongside the remains of his grandmother.
As "they did not think it necessary to look at the injured parts at all", they took only a brief glance at the body, and soon afterwards returned to the Grapes.
There they spend months, afterwards return to their foraging sites in the Main Hawaiian Islands (MHI), and subsequently breed every 3 4 or more years [23].
The sum of the resulting molecular states across copies, i.e., of each individual species, is compared to the initial state, the difference being afterwards returned and the cellular state being updated.
