His body was paralyzed, but he retained consciousness and speech.

He retained just enough consciousness to try to struggle to the surface.

HAD the girl retained consciousness, she would have understood much.

Despite retaining consciousness, patients are usually incapable of speech during the attack.

I knew that I should not retain consciousness for many more seconds.

He fought to retain consciousness; to get to his feet.

He retained consciousness enough to kick at the man who had hit him, then roll.

He fought to retain consciousness and made himself fix on a thought to the exclusion of everything else.

Kinnison told, but fought to retain what consciousness he had.

Fortunately my head came in contact with no large limb, and so I retained consciousness through it all.