In each of the following sentences, there is a blank space. Below each sentence,there are five words out of which one can be used to fill the blank to make the sentence grammatically and coherently correct. Find the most appropriate word that fit into the blank contextually.

Q:

“It’s a pity you can’t stay for dinner,” his mother says after a while as the meal _____ to an end.

• 1
  Comes
• 2
  Came
• 3
  Had come
• 4
  Coming
• 5
  Had been coming