If a therapist, aide, nurse, or doctor enters just as we begin visiting a patient, we tell the patient who we are and that we will return shortly.
Christianity Today
Her personal website currently claims to be 'undergoing essential maintenance' but promises to 'return shortly'.
Times, Sunday Times
But she returned shortly with one of those looks that suggested something was wrong.
Christianity Today
He returned shortly thereafter but discovered that most of the people he cared about were also gone, so he decided to leave once again.
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He was released from the company on two separate occasions, but returned shortly thereafter.
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