"Sometimes people remember little things after the shock has passed."
When the shock passed, he went on, and then it was as if the explosion hadn't occurred.
For one moment a shock of fear passed through her.
The shock had passed, even momentarily the fear although that would return.
It was as if a shock of recognition had passed through him.
But after the immediate shock had passed, she was furious.
As the shock of it passed, I realized what had happened.
That struck her hard; but the shock passed as quickly.
When the first shock had passed, he became oddly calm.
Now that the first shock had passed, the second occurred to her.