Collocations for terrible - adj.

be, feel, look, seem, sound

really, truly
I thought something really terrible had happened.

absolutely, just, quite, simply
He suddenly collapsed—it was simply terrible.

pretty, rather
very
Nothing very terrible happened.

for
It must have been terrible for the survivors.

Terrible is used with these nouns:
accident, acne, act, atrocity, beating, bind, blow, blunder, bore, burden, burn, business, catastrophe, clarity, commotion, complex, condition, consequence, cost, cough, crash, crime, crisis, cry, curse, danger, day, death, deed, dilemma, din, disappointment, disaster, disservice, dream, drought, face, fall, famine, fate, fear, feeling, fight, force, fright, fuss, gash, guilt, habit, handwriting, headache, heat, hurry, illness, incident, indictment, injury, injustice, insult, job, journey, liar, loneliness, longing, loss, luck, massacre, memory, mess, mistake, misunderstanding, mood, murder, news, nightmare, noise, odds, ordeal, pain, place, power, precedent, predicament, problem, racket, rage, realization, reputation, retribution, risk, roar, row, saga, scare, scene, scream, secret, service, shadow, shame, shape, shock, sight, situation, slaughter, smell, sorrow, state, stench, storm, story, strain, suffering, suspicion, tale, taste, temper, thing, thirst, thought, threat, time, toll, traffic, tragedy, trouble, truth, vengeance, waste, weather, winter, wrong