Collocations for anticipation - noun

great, keen | eager, excited, happy, pleasurable
We look forward to your lecture with eager anticipation. | a feeling of pleasurable anticipation

growing
There is growing anticipation that the prime minister will have to resign.

be full of
We are full of anticipation, and can''t wait to visit you.

in ~ of
People are buying extra groceries in anticipation of heavy snowstorms.

a feeling/sense of anticipation, a shiver/thrill of anticipation
The unexpected news sent a thrill of anticipation through the group.