He would not give them a chance to recover from their surprise.
It took Tom a second to recover from his surprise.
And before the Council had recovered from its first surprise, he was talking.
Matt was still recovering from his surprise when he heard a door open.
I tried to recover from the surprise, and quickly made estimates.
IT was a short while before the two visitors recovered from their surprise.
It was a full minute before the official recovered from his surprise.
It took the warrior a moment to recover from his surprise.
You and the girl get out of here before they recover from their surprise.
By this time Montgomery had recovered from the surprise of my question.