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.