Converse of object

• erect: This was sneaky: the estate was erecting barricades 20 minutes ' walk from the road.

• burn: The actions were brilliant with the roads being blocked by ' fallen ' trees, burning barricades and samba dancers waving feather dusters.

• build: Within minutes, hundreds of thousands are on the streets building burning barricades.

• remove: The army had wanted the Free Derry barricades removed in order that normality should be restored.

• man: I don't see you out on the street manning the barricades.

• make: A double row of overturned coaches made a capital barricade, with a few paving stones.

Adjective modifier

• cultural: He said there seemed to be a " cultural barricade " around Birmingham and a reluctance to accept ideas from elsewhere.

• many: The brothers were eventually smuggled out around 10:45 in Police vans over the many barricades that were erected.

• makeshift: People are huddled in gardens, behind makeshift barricades.

Preposition: in

• street: I don't recall any barricades in the streets or assaults on Downing Street; I suppose we Protested; great stuff.

Noun used with modifier

• burning: A running battle ensued on the streets with burning barricades being built every step of the way.

• wire: Another building had been surrounded by a double row of six foot high razor wire barricades.

• police: Outside the synagogue a crowd of more than 1000 gathered in the rain behind police barricades along both sides of Fifth Avenue.

• metal: Some protestors are charging police lines using metal barricades.

• street: At nightfall, a network of street barricades is constructed, blocking most of the city's arteries.

• rubble: He was shot near the rubble barricade in front of Rossville Flats.