He spent a long moment trying to recover from the shock.

I wanted to give myself time to recover from the shock.

To recover from the shock took him less than a second.

He never recovered from the shock and died four months later at 75 years of age.

But only for a moment; he recovered quickly from his shock.

He was still recovering from the shock even now, despite what had happened a moment later, when he'd taken another step.

She came down hard, then ran to a far wall to try to recover from the shock.

Before he could recover from the shock of that, she was using her hands.

He was the first to recover from the shock of that news.

It will take him a long time to recover from the shock, if ever.