I went on a wild-goose chase all over the town looking for that adapter until I discovered they no longer make them.

It seems equally clear that the ‘Complement + Prepositionʼ order illustrated in (172) (a) is likewise highly marked, and hence subject to heavy restrictions on its use. And sure enough, this does indeed seem to be the case: for one thing, forms such as thereafter, herein, whereby are stylistically highly marked (e.g. they are only used in particular registers such as legal language).

Ixnay on the W-A-L-K while the dogs can hear you.

He takes a beautiful ivory and bamboo waterpipe out of a trunk, and packs the bowl with layer after layer of Xinjiangese herbs and sticky hash, grinning. Most Chinese people hate it, but we Xinjiang people love to fly.