Examples from literature

• All came near being lost.... 
• Prissy came close over to Leslie with her book in her hand. 
• The lady whom Richard was to marry came to meet him in Sicily. 
• This came near being too much for me though I slowly recovered and in three months the doctors thought I was able to come home. 
• We need not conclude that all the myths we are about to examine came from a single original source, or were handed about—with flint arrow-heads, seeds, shells, beads, and weapons—in the course of savage commerce.