Example sentences of "[verb] just returned to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 One night — I think it was the night before Christmas Eve — we had just returned to the cottage after a hard day next door doing some of the ‘ few finishing-off jobs ’ Nigel had earlier specified .
2 They had just returned to the courtyard and were about to examine the various outbuildings when they heard the sound of running footsteps .
3 Van Gelder had just returned to the bridge .
4 They had just returned to the flat after a long , lazy picnic in the September sunshine , to find Elise out .
5 Although you might not know it , some of modern popular music 's most cherished players have just returned to the States after a dismal British tour .
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