get done

“And I'd asked them what they were doing there, and what they were hoping to get done in the field office.”

I found there were multiple times when I would read an email that made me upset or distracted—an editor giving me critical feedback or an annoying task I would have to get done.

"They do jobs that would otherwise not get done," Duma Boko told the BBC Africa Daily podcast before his historic inauguration on Friday.

"A lot of these workers from Zimbabwe perform tasks that the citizen finds unattractive... they do jobs that would otherwise not get done and so there's no conflict there," Boko said.

"There are changes we must live with in order to get done the things we’re trying to do."