[Corpora-List] Frequency list of phrasal verbs in English

[Mark Davies]

I'm looking for frequency listings of phrasal verbs in English (preferably in electronic form).  I'm aware of the thread on phrasal verbs on CORPORA this past May, but that referred mainly to the methodological issue of how to count phrasal verbs, rather than pointers to actual lists.
 
I've created a very basic list based on the BNC, but it is only a very initial attempt.  I have a relational database containing the frequency of all of the bigrams in the BNC (along with their POS and lemma), and ran a query to match this up with a list of about 7000 phrasal verbs.  
 
The problem is that while it could count cases like "let down", "letting down", etc for each of the 7000 phrasal verbs, it couldn't handle discontinuous units ("Bill let THE OTHERS down on the project"), or non-opaque uses of the same phrases ("Bill let the others DOWN THE SIDE of the wall").  These are some of the issues raised in the previous thread on CORPORA.
 
Anyway, my hope is that someone else might have already created such a frequency list, taking into account discontinuous units and non-opaque uses.  I'd appreciate any pointers to such a list, and would be happy to summarize the responses, if there is sufficient interest. Thanks in advance.
 
Mark Davies
Brigham Young University
http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu