Converse of object

• safeguard: The use of safeguarded wharves saves over 950,000 trips by heavy goods vehicles a year on London's roads.

• build: Railroad lines run to the newly built wooden wharves in the foreground.

• have: Elements, who ceased canal carrying during the 1960's, once had several canal side wharves in the Oldbury area.

• serve: New sidings were added on both sides of the Manchester Ship Canal to serve coal wharves on the canal.

• work: Gone were all the working wharves in their stead were thousands of riverside flats.

• exist: This prompts the question: is there enough wharfage to get rid of existing wharves?

Preposition: in

• area: They erected large warehouses and wharves in the area around Thames Street, especially for the importation of wine.

Adjective modifier

• old: These are the old wharves which were separated by wide waterways.

• many: The site comprises 2.4 acres of water space and, at Its height, served many wharves and factories.

• new: Landing places near the City were at a premium and new wharves and warehouses were built to accommodate the growing trade.

• small: All along the inner city section their were once short arms leading both north and south into small wharves and basins.

• commercial: In the year to April 2002 the two commercial wharves handled some 470 vessels.

• private: On the seaward side they make their way between close-packed building to the private wharves that seem to lie behind every house and shop.

Preposition: on

• side: There were no local crossing points so wharves on the north side of the Canal had to be provided with their own transport system.

Noun used with modifier

• riverside: They would have allowed small boats to deliver goods directly to market without having to offload their cargoes at riverside wharves.

• canal: Elements, who ceased canal carrying during the 1960's, once had several canal side wharves in the Oldbury area.

• waterside: Shippers were rather tired of waterside wharves, with their lack of warehouse room, and lighterage was increasingly troublesome and expensive.

• loading: Many of these loading wharves can still be seen today.

• coal: New sidings were added on both sides of the Manchester Ship Canal to serve coal wharves on the canal.

• timber: Timber wharves, a sawmill and factories were established around the bridge.