"return afterwards" is correct and usable in written English.
It means to come back or go back at a later time or after a specific event or action has occurred. Example: I need to run some errands now, but I will return afterwards to finish our conversation.
They will leave the elevator for their talk but will return afterwards.
The country wants more of them to return afterwards, and for the traffic to become two-way.Brazil is no longer a scientific also-ran.
It was unhelpful, to say the least, towards survivors who wanted to return afterwards.Ms Pick is equally incisive in describing how post-war Austria came to adopt the mantle of victimhood.
But like others he will return afterwards: "Kano is a very good place to stay and make your living if we can be assured of security".
Even you, my dear toddler, will reluctantly slink off to your "timeout" Elmo chair after some transgression, only to return afterwards with hugs and kisses for all.
He returned afterwards to graduate from the University of Maine in 1949 with a B.S. in Agriculture.
At the Other Voices festival in February, Gallagher played a hurricane of a homecoming concert in a long-disused church that's now a venue called the Glassworks, then another to inaugurate Ebrington Square beside the barracks from which the killers of the British Parachute Regiment launched the Bloody Sunday massacre, and to which they returned afterwards.
But there was a sad note to the afternoon for Just A Par's trainer Paul Nicholls when Rolling Aces died following the second race after collapsing on the walkway when returning afterwards.
Likely most of these 2010 voters returned ballots by Election Day, but some were likely returned afterwards.
If no one was at home at the time of the first visit, interviewers returned afterwards to ask for eligible participants.
For intimate examinations the researcher either left the consultation for the duration of the examination, returning afterwards, or remained present recording the discussion but not observing the examination itself.
