Hey, Patrick, good to see you back on list.

Set up is correct.

I forget the term for such "lexemes", which you will not find in all
dictionaries (and some are less than apparent). But there is a class of
verbs that always take a preposition. Bring up, bring out, take down, touch
down, give up, and so on, and this is one of them. They are strange in that
other words can come between the verb and its preposition "bring it up", and
so on. But there meaning and grammar and "binding" to other words and
grammatical structures is unique to them, differentiating bring up from
bring.

A call to a decent local English department should be able to put this to
rest; a call to a decent linguistics department can bolster the argument for
the unconvinced.

Good luck. People can get very strange discussing this. Should that happen,
ask them if they would enjoy a round of the Monty Hall dilemma.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com