Pete got a huge buzz of ...... as he heard about Lilly coming to the party.

A brief wave of ...... guilt that I'd have to throw out so much fruit made me decide to bake a nice fruit cake.

An internal auditor paid us an ...... visit today. We were all surprised.

The construction company has made the foundations even more solid in ...... of an earthquake.

The ...... 'it' is used in the subject position merely as a grammatical subject, not as a semantic subject.