Collocations for intense - adj.

be
become, get, grow
remain

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
incredibly
especially, particularly

Intense is used with these nouns:
activity, agony, anger, annoyance, awareness, barrage, battle, beam, blaze, bombardment, burst, colour, combat, competition, concentration, controversy, craving, criticism, curiosity, debate, desire, devotion, disappointment, discussion, dislike, emotion, engagement, euphoria, excitement, exercise, expression, eye, fear, feeling, ferment, fighting, flame, flavour, focus, fury, gaze, grief, guilt, gunfire, hatred, heat, interest, involvement, irritation, jealousy, light, loathing, loneliness, longing, look, love, loyalty, negotiation, pain, passion, pleasure, preoccupation, preparation, pressure, relationship, relief, rivalry, scrutiny, sensation, spasm, speculation, stress, suffering, sunlight, thirst, training, urge, workout