go <- c("go after it", "here we go", "he went bust", "go get it go", "i 'm gon na go", "she 's going berserk")
lemma_GO <- c("go", "goes", "going", "gone", "went", "gon na")
pattern_GO <- paste0("\\b(", paste0(lemma_GO, collapse = "|"), ")\\b")
library(stringr)
str_extract_all(go, paste0("('?\\b[a-z']+\\b|^)(?=\\s?", pattern_GO, ")"))