2007年8月18日 · If you are depressed at that moment and your friend is sitting next to you then the phrase would be "Thank you for being here for me." If the event has past, even if he is now sitting next to you, you would say "Thank you for being there for me. Here and there are indicators for when the depression took place not your friend's location.

2008年6月24日 · If you want to thank someone for being amenable to helping you, then you have to say, "Thank you for being willing to help you." If he had refused to help, you could say he was not willing to help you. Willing is a predicate adjective here, so it requires a verb or verb form. You couldn't say, sarcastically, "Thank you for not willing to help ...

2021年9月21日 · Hello, For example, you are working at an exhibition. Would you say thank you for being here when people come in the exhibition or thank you for being here...

2007年11月17日 · I tried to translate this sentence and I came up with this: thank you for being here with us today and hopefully you can come to our show (TV show) again soon. Gracias por estar aqui con nosotros hoy y con optimismo pueda venir a nuestra programa de television una otra vez pronto Thank you!

2018年1月24日 · I am not sure if it is correct to say: 1- i'm happy to be here. Or 2- i'm happy being here.

2009年8月16日 · We in Hungary use a sentence and it 's easiest and shortest translation would be thanks for being you. But in my opinion (started thinking from Hungarian) it would have a better and understandable: 'Thank you for being. Who you are. ' This means to me that your simply existence makes my life better and I say thank you for that.

2014年12月27日 · Hi, SP. Thanks a lot. But, I still think "being" here implies "the span of time mentioned". My remote relative lived in my apartment for half a year, my mother and grandparents were nice to her and she left, she said "Thank you very much for being so nice to me", "being" in this expression means "the time between she came and when (after) she left".

2019年11月16日 · In this case, the idea being has the sense "the idea/purpose/aim that is (being) specified above." That is, the idea specifically existing/at issue in this case I have just been discussing. I am writing you this message, the idea being (the notion specifically at issue) to help you understand the meaning of the phrase "the idea being."

2017年1月31日 · I don't know if any of these are gerunds but they're all past participles of one form or another. Some of them (1, 3 and 4) are perfectly correct. But number 2 is something that no native speaker would be likely to say. Better: This is …

2014年1月4日 · "it" and "here" both refer to Zaragoza. "Being/As it is between Madrid and Barcelona, many bands from Madrid's Movida movement played here their first gig outside Madrid." The two options I proposse are: "Being between..." and "As it is between...", if none of them are correct, would there be another concise option? Many thanks