I'll admit to not having gone back up this thread, but I certainly don't remember anything that would generate your question. Whence came it? Actually, I just went back and looked and I still don't see anything like what you've asked your question about. Was it something we said? Or just something that came to mind?It was sparked simply by the comments that some of y'all were proud of being prescriptivists. I picked a couple of common English expressions that would seem, on the face of them, to be the same sort of construction, but of which, only one could exist in either of two possible forms:
Subj PVerb Obj PVParticle
Subj PVerb PVParticle Obj
In case you're not familiar with them the phrasal verbs in question are:
To run into (someone) - to meet (someone) unexpectedly
To run up (e.g., a bill) - to create, amass (a bill)
One can say:
Subj PVerb PVParticle Obj
Jack and Jill ran up a big bill
or
Subj PVerb Obj PVParticle
Jack and Jill ran a big bill up
and
Subj PVerb PVParticle Obj
I ran into an old friend.
but not
Subj PVerb Obj PVParticle
I ran an old friend into.
I just thought that, since y'all were so proud of being prescriptivists, y'all could state the rule that governs this usage pattern. That's all.