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> I ask you to set something up for me. I don't ask you to setup something for me.

"Please set up a meeting with Kevin for me" sounds more natural to me than "Please set a meeting with Kevin up for me."

That's called a heavy NP shift[1]. Since "A meeting with Kevin" is "heavy" (which is a fuzzy line, but one which native speakers know intuitively), the phrasal preposition gets "shifted" closer to the verb.

An example (pronouns almost never qualify as "heavy"):

Good:

• Please set him up

Weird sounding:

• *Please set up him

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_NP_shift

"Please set a meeting up with Kevin for me"? I'm probably breaking rules here.

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